Problems in eugenics : papers communicated to the first International Eugenics Congress held at the University of London, July 24th to 30th, 1912.

  • International Eugenics Congress 1912 : London, England)
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Credit: Problems in eugenics : papers communicated to the first International Eugenics Congress held at the University of London, July 24th to 30th, 1912. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    D. F. Weeks. Biology and Eugenics. 67 én/ □ Di d 2L _r-T—JS-r ^ Ô Ö Й Ú iL iLiíif :ii □; ö ? hKh 1.) ó lii Ò ^ Ctafl eny # ¡-o * Caua^ ilM Созв*« Case 586. Fig. 4.—The central figure on this chart is an epileptic woman, who has spent much of her life in the almshouse. No two of her seven children are by the same father. The epileptic daughter (now a patient at The Village ), whose father was a feeble-minded alcoholic man, had started to lead the same unchaste life as her mother. In the almshouse she had given birth to one illegitimate child before she was placed under state care. The mother, when she last left the almshouse, went to live in a hut in the woods with a feeble-minded man, who had three feeble-minded sons. One of these sons married the feeble-minded sister of one of the epileptic patients at The Village. E, epileptic; F, feeble-minded; N, normal; T, tubercular; d, died; b, born; .... illegal union. Case 4172. Pis- 5-—The central mating in this chart is of a feebleminded man and a feeble-minded woman, each of whom was married more than once. The three children resulting from this union were all defective, two feeble¬ minded and one epileptic. The mother's relatives show a history of insanity, suicide, and epilepsy. E, epileptic; F, feeble-minded; A, alco¬ holic; I, insane; N, normal; d, died; inf, infancy. F 2