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L. B. A high-grade imbecile consumptive. Hermother was a pros- titute. Her grandmother died of consumption. L. has a mulatto half- brother, she being white.

J. and M. D. Brother and sister, middle-grade imbeciles; are

hairless. One imbecile brother, also hairless, lives in a county poorhouse. Another brother and sister are also feeble-minded.

J. and L. 1. Brother and sister. Girl a high-grade imbecile of good

disposition. Boy a typical moral imbecile, his special form of depravity being to wound the feelings of those who have been most kind to him, especially the lady teachers, for whom he plans ingenious and elaborately worked out schemes of outrage. Their mother was feeble-minded.

K. D. High-grade imbecile ; a family history of consumption, ine- briety, and feeble-mindedness.

R. D. High-grade imbecile. Her grandmother died of epilepsy.

She has three aunts who are congenital deaf-mutes.

J. and J. F. Brothers ; middle-grade imbeciles. Father and mother

both died of consumption.

R. G. High-grade idiot, mute, but heanng. His grandfather is

insane. Three uncles are mute and insane.

E. T. A low-grade epileptic, imbecile girl ; has the following among

her relatives in the past two generations : Her grandfather, ]. T., who was a patient in an insane hospital for twenty years, had six sons, uncles of E. Two were patients in the same hospital, one of whom committed suicide ; two other sons, not classed as insane, committed suicide, and one other committed mur- der. E. had a grand-uncle, also insane, who had a son who committed a very atrocious murder.

F. and M. B. Brother and sister; boy an epileptic, low-grade imbe- cile ; girl a middle-grade imbecile. Their mother is insane ; father and paternal grandfather were drunkards.

M. L. A low-grade imbecile. Father a drunkard ; mother intem- perate and consumptive ; one sister a deaf-mute.

S., L., and B. N. Two sisters and a brother ; middle- and high-grade

imbeciles. Their mother is insane ; father somewhat weak-minded. There are eight children in the family, not one of whom is quite sound in both mind and body.

M. N. Low-grade imbecile. Father and mother both demented.

One brother is feeble-minded. A pauper family.

E. and J. P. High-grade imbecile brother and sister. Both parents

were feeble-minded. Paternal grandfather feeble-minded and paralytic.

J.Q. High-grade imbecile girl. Her mother was feeble-minded and

cancerous. Her maternal grandmother feeble-minded, epileptic, and paralytic.

M. R. Low-grade imbecile. On mother's side three uncles and two

aunts died of consumption. On father's side a great-aunt was insane, an aunt eccentric, an uncle deaf-mute.