. Mental defectives in Virginia: . with a family said to be im-moral. Both are feeble-minded. This woman, No. 24, was married thethird time to a man with whom she had lived a while before her secondhusband was taken to the colony. Her third husband served a term in thepenitentiary. He and his twin brother were feeble-minded. While the onlyepileptic member of this family died in the colony, it will be noted that thestock is unquestionably degenerate, summing up as follows: 13 feeble-minded (of whom one, an epileptic, died in the colony); 2 insane; 5 tuber-cular; S had marasmus; 8 died in infanc
. Mental defectives in Virginia: . with a family said to be im-moral. Both are feeble-minded. This woman, No. 24, was married thethird time to a man with whom she had lived a while before her secondhusband was taken to the colony. Her third husband served a term in thepenitentiary. He and his twin brother were feeble-minded. While the onlyepileptic member of this family died in the colony, it will be noted that thestock is unquestionably degenerate, summing up as follows: 13 feeble-minded (of whom one, an epileptic, died in the colony); 2 insane; 5 tuber-cular; S had marasmus; 8 died in infancy; a total of 14 in , insane asylums, the Epileptic colony, the jail, and the peni-tentiary—all have known them to the cost of the taxpayer. This is an ex-ample of the rapidity with which defective germ plasm reproduces, with aprophecy of what the cost will be in future generations unless action istaken now. Sx. A d. 3 0.^ Q d, 60i/r. SunsrroKe 4 N d. 10yr. d. 12-^r. Materia a 4 DIN , O CHART
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