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that we have in this district a Iarge quantity of Brachycephali (25.6 % amongst
schoobchildren in the district). Persons with brown eyes appear here, more than
in most other parts of Sweden. Several circumstances show that this race blend
has been decidedly disadvantageous.
In the family there is considerable drunkenness, neurosis, idiocy, weak in«
telligence and criminality etc. (see below). Syphilis appears only seldom, tuber«
culosis is comparatively rare. In spite of the unmistakable degeneration which
appears in the family, mortality is not specially high, in any case not greater than
the average rate for the whole kingdom, according to my calculation. Thus we
have here an example, which shows that a veritable badly constituted stock, in
spite of unmistakable nervous«psychical degeneration can increase, and spread at
home as well as abroad, in a very remarkable manner, a circumstance worth noting
from a race=hygienic point*of=view.
We must not take it for granted, that such degeneration in itself, will dimi*
nish the family.
TABLE 1.
SPECIFICATION ÖF MATERIAL.
Number of descendants 1,909
Other persons married into the Lister family 241
Further additions (persons returned, belonging to branches of the family who had
previously removed from the district) 34
Illegitimate children 48
Total 2,232
My material comprises, as table 1 shows, 2,232 persons, partly offspring
of the ancestral parents, and partly 241 other persons who married into the
family. The nearest relations of the latter*named persons I have not included in
the present investigations (though they are mentioned and described in my original
work) so as not to have the material heterogeneous.
TABLE 2.
NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS IN THE LISTER FAMILY ANÖ FREQUENCY OF MARRIAGES WITH RELATIONS.
Number Percentage
78) 20.69)
3132 , . >35.01
541 14.32)
245 64.99
377 100. oo
Households in which parents have been closely related (cousins—
second cousins) .............................................
Households in which parents were distant relations ............
Households in which parents were not related ..................
Total
Table 2 shows, that marriages with relations have occurred often amongst
the 377 households, which the material comprises. Marriages with cousins and
second cousins have occurred at the rate of 20 %, with more distant relations
more than 14 %, thus marriages with near or distant relations show a rate of
35 %, a specially note«worthy faet, to which I shall revert.
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