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The Fertility of the Unfit

CHAPTER I
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There were in the family 76 convicts, 7 of whom were convicted of murder.

In 75 years, this family cost their country in almshouses, trials, courts, prisons, and correctional establishments about L250,000.

The injury inflicted by this one family on person and property was simply incalculable.
In New Zealand, the ratio of those dependent upon the State, or on public or private support, has gone up from 16.86 per thousand of population, over 15 years of age in 1878, to 23.01 in 1901.

The ratio of defectives, including deaf and dumb, blind, lunatics, epileptics, paralytics, crippled and deformed, debilitated and infirm, has gone up from 5.4 per thousand, over fifteen years, in 1874, to 11.4 in 1896, declining slightly to 10.29 in 1901.

The ratio of lunatics has gone up from 1.9, in 1874, to 3.4 in 1901.


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