Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress: University of London, July, 1912International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)
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Abstracts of Papers Read at the First International Eugenics Congress: University of London, July, 1912
International Eugenics Congress (1st : 1912 : London)
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Showing a +tuberculous family with apparently normal parents+,
both of whom come from tuberculous stocks. Of their 14 children only
two are normal; six are consumptive; four died in infancy. The father
was one of a family of 8 of whom only he and one other survived--and
that other became insane, and his wife and children became paupers in
consequence.
[Sidenote: E 5b]
Showing +insanity, consumption and infant mortality+; also the
transmission of insanity through the apparently normal.
[Sidenote: E 5c]
Showing the +survival of tuberculous+ stock by accession of
strength from the normal. Only the illegitimate children and their
non-sick father survive in this group.
[Sidenote: E 5d]
Showing the case of a +normal woman who had two consumptive
husbands+. Survival of defective strain by accession of strength
from the normal.
[Sidenote: E 5e]
+Consumption+ in three generations. +Male infant
mortality+. Query, transmission (?) through the normal.
[Sidenote: E 6]
A series showing +transmission of mental defect through the
apparently normal+.
[Sidenote: E 6a]
Insanity, blindness, epilepsy and feeble-mindedness.
[Sidenote: E 6b]
Insanity in three generations. Transmission through the normal in each
case.
[Sidenote: E 6c]
Insanity through the normal twice removed.
[Sidenote: E 6d]
Insanity, epilepsy, and infant mortality--a Mendelian suggestion.
[Sidenote: F]
EXHIBITED BY PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT, CITY OF LIVERPOOL.
E. W. Hope, M.D., M.O.H.
[Sidenote: F 1]
One large model of +insanitary property+ dealt with in
Liverpool, built to scale, etc., with glass cover.
[Sidenote: F 2]
Charts showing the +decline in mortality from phthisis+:--
[Sidenote: F 2a]
One showing rate for England and Wales.
[Sidenote: F 2b]
One " " England and Ireland.
[Sidenote: F 2c]
One " " Scotland.
[Sidenote: F 2d]
One " " Liverpool.
[Sidenote: F 3 b c d e f]
Six framed and glazed photographs illustrating insanitary property
which has been demolished in Liverpool, and the new dwellings which
have been erected to house the dispossessed tenants.
* * * * *
[Sidenote: G]
AN EXHIBIT OF A SYSTEM OF MAKING PEDIGREE RECORDS.
Exhibited by Dr. Raymond Pearl,
+Biologist of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono,
Maine.+
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