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the »very defective» I comprise persons afflicted with idiocy, imbecility, mental
diseases, marked psychopathy, epilepsy, and myoklonus epilepsy, which is a
characteristic of this family.
Table 4 contains in column E the whole material, and we find there, that
only 92 known cases of tubercolosis appears in the family, which is a small
number, even if this is stated as a minimum. It is surprising that such is the
case, in a family which in other ways is so defective. The reason of this is
probably, that the family in question is immune, to a great extent, to this disease,
usually so prevalent amongst the people.
Several other farmer’s families in the same district, are not in this way so
fortunately situated, for amongst them, mortality from consumption is much
greater than in the Lister family, in spite of the faet, that practically speaking,
they live under the same conditions.
If we examine table 4 further, we find there that the number of cripples is
rather small (16), and suicide is rare (6 cases). Persons with psychical defeets
are, on the other hånd remarkably numerous (9.54 % of the whole number).
Weak intelligence is a very prominent defeet.
TABLE 4.
FAMILY PATHOLOGY.
Specification of defeets A. B. C. D. E. Percentage
1,909 decendants 241 outsiders married into the family 34 additions 48 illegitimate The whole material 2,232 persons
Tuberculosis 72 19 i 92 4.12
I. Cripples 15 — — i 16 0.72
Suicides 5 1 — — 6 0.27
Debilitas 63 3 5 71 3.18
Psychical Imbecillitas 34 2 i 2 39 1.75
II. taints: ’ Idiocy 7 — — — 7 0.31 9.54
Mental diseases 44 5 2 — 51 2.28
Psychopathy 44 1 — — 45 2.02
Epilepsy 6(8?) — 6(8?) 0.27 11.29
Serious Myokl.sepilepsy 13 — — 1 14* 0.63
III. nervous Paralysis agitans 7(9?) — — — 7(9?) 0.31 > 1.75
di eases: Hysteria 3 — — — 3 0.13
Other forms 9 — — — 9 0.40 1
Alcohol I
Alcohol misuse 138 34 6 1 179 8.02 I
Moral and Alcohol II >12.io
IV. social Chronic aleoholism . .. 55 33 3 — 91 4.08 1
defeets: Criminality and Defeets of 15.23
character 43 4 2 — 49, 2.20 J 3.14
I.ewdness 14 7 — — 21 0.94 1
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