Heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry H. Goddard.

  • Goddard, Henry Herbert, 1866-1957.
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Heredity of feeble-mindedness / by Henry H. Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Such is the bare presentation of a few of our cases already worked up. We have made no attempt to study these points, or to mark them statistically, as such labour will be more worth while when all of our cases are completed. It should be stated that while Chart XV and Chart VIII are undoubtedly the worst cases we have come across, the others here presented are hardly exceptional. They can be matched by many that we already have on file.1 We have nearly four hundred children in the institution, and we may reasonably hope to present a fairly complete family history of at least two-thirds of these. If this prediction is verified, it will give us enough data to deduce something of importance concerning human heredity. The work is going on as fast as we can push it. We have now three workers in the field, and will perhaps add a fourth before very long. Later we shall hope to present a full report of all our findings. 1 Since this was written this family has been farther investigated, with the result that we now know' the facts concerning 319 members, of whom 119 are eeble-minded with only 42 known to be normal