Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-05

acuteness Of sense tetcet.ion; and
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an affirmative .o--..:iou
The materials aTaiieeie for the con-
duct of the investigation have been
derived from two sources. an account
of the children in the special"
schools OF Manchester. complied by
Miss Mary Dendy. and report from
the Edinburgh Charity Organization
Society concerning the children of one
of the ordinary elementary schools Of
that city The total number of chill
dren examined was, as far as we can
make out, In Edinburgh $50 boys and
Az. girls. In Manchester 1,433 boys
and 1,109 girls, or gross total Of
1904 children.
In the Manchester data the parents
were divided into temperate and
Incorporate" and information was
given about the health and, in most
cases, about the intelligence OF the
brothers and sisters of the mentally
defective child. In the Edinburgh re-
port more details we're given as to the
degree and kind of the drinking Of
the parents, who we're Invisible into
five classes-(D teetotaler, (2) sober,
go suspected TO drink, az drinks.
90 has bouts of drinking. Glasses
and 3 were too small to be kept sep
arate, so that teetotalers We're in
cluded with the sober, and suspected
drinkers with drinkers.
The general conclusions arrived at
are stated In the following terms:
% There is a higher death-rate
among the offspring of alcoholic than
among the offspring of sober parents,
but owing to the greater fertility Of
alcoholic parents, the net family of
the sober is hardly larger than the
net family OF the alcoholic.
(2) The mean weight and height of
the children Of alcoholic parents are
slightly greater than those of sober
parents, but as the age of the former
children Is slightly greater the cor
relations when corrected for age are
slightly positive. e., there is slight
ly greater height and weight in the
children OF the sober.
go The wages of the alcoholic as
contrasted with those of thee sober
parent show slight difference COM
patible with the employers dislike for
an alcoholic employee, but wholly in
consistent with a marked mental or
physical inferiority in the alcoholic
parent
az The general health of the chill
dren of alcohL &c parents appears on
the whole slightly better than that OF
1.-THE children of sober parents. There
are fewer delicate children. and in u
most marked way cases of tubercu-
losis and epilepsy are less frequent
than among the children of sober par
ents. TITO source of this relation may
be sorgr ~ directions; the phys
ica' : 3u.,-Ft-t in the community
have proba the greatest capacity
and 'asta o.: alcohol. Further the
high lea.h-rate OF the children OF
alcoho..c parents probably leaves the
filter to survive. Epilepsy and tuber-
culosis both depending upon inherit
ed constitutional conditions, they will
be more common in the parents OF
affected offspring, and. probably II
combined with alcohol are incompat-
ible with any length OF life or much
size of family II these views be cor.
rect, we can only say that parental
alcoholism has no marked effect on
filial health.
(5) Parental alcoholism is not the
source of mental defect In offspring
| (6) The relationship. II any. be-
tween parental alcoholism and fila
intelligence is so slight that even It's
sign cannot be determined from tn,
> present material.