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

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

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    child. The response has been full, free, and hearty. Parents do all in their power to help ns get the facts. There is very rarely anything like an attempt to conceal facts that they know. Of course, many of these parents are ignorant, often feeble¬ minded, and cannot tell all that we should like to know. Never¬ theless, by adroit questioning and cross-reference, we have been able to get what we believe to be very accurate data in a very large percentage of our cases. The charts here presented are typical of about eighty so far completed. The symbols used in the charts are the following : Square indicates male. Circle indicates female. A capital letter indicates disease, habit, or condition, as follows: A, alcoholic (habitual drunkard); B, blind; C, criminal; D, deaf; Dwf, dwarf; E, epileptic; F, feeble-minded, either black letter, or white letter on black ground (the former when sex is unknown); I, insane ; M, migraine; N, normal; Sx, grave sexual offender ; Sy, syphilitic; T, tuberculous ; W, wanderer, tramp, or truant. Any of these letters may be used with no square or circle when sex is unknown. When even the letter is omitted the vertical line points to the fact that there was an individual of whom nothing is known. Small black circle indicates miscarriage—time is given (in months) when known; also cause; stillbirth is shown as a miscarriage at nine months; b = born; d = died ; m = married ; inf = infancy ; hand shows which child is in the institution for feeble-minded; illeg = illegitimate ; heavy line under any symbol indicates that the person is in some institution at the expense of society.
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