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The Fertility of the Unfit

CHAPTER IX
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Sentenced in 1896 to three years for burglary.
B., committed to Industrial school for larceny in 1883; discharged from there, 1887; aged 17.
C., committed to Industrial School for breaking into and stealing, 1886; aged 16; discharged, 1890.
D., aged 14; E.91/2; and F., 7 years; were sent to Industrial School in 1891 by the Charitable Aid Board, the father being dead and the mother in gaol.
D.was discharged last year, aged 18.

F.is in hospital for removal of nasal growth, and defective eyesight.

E.was admitted to a lunatic Asylum, September, 1897.

Four medical men report on him as follows:--"A case of satyriasis from congenital defect." "His depraved habits result of bad bringing up by his mother." "Probably hereditary." "A case of moral depravity associated with mental deficiency, and cretinism." The youngest of the family, a girl aged 11, is said to be dependent on her mother.
With regard to the hereditary nature of Insanity, John Charles Bucknill and Daniel Hack Tuke, M.D.'s, in "A Manual of Psychological Medicine," 4th Ed., p.

65, says:-- "Certainly, if in ever so small degree there is to be a stamping out of insanity, we must act on the principle, better let the individual suffer than run the risk of bequeathing a legacy of insanity to the next generation....


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