"The Jukes" : a study in crime, pauperism, disease and heredity : also further studies of criminals / by R.L. Dugdale ; with an introduction by Elisha Harris.
- Richard Louis Dugdale
- Date:
- 1877
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: "The Jukes" : a study in crime, pauperism, disease and heredity : also further studies of criminals / by R.L. Dugdale ; with an introduction by Elisha Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to be a prostitute, and in going back upon the heredity, we find iji gen. 4 that the father's father was the licentious, though legitimate, son of Ada, a harlot, and on the mother's side (gen. 4), the father was the legitimate son of Bell, a harlot. According to the law of heredity, it is a logical deduction to make, that line seven has reverted to the ancestral types on the unchaste side of both parents. Respecting this case, very little reliable information has been gathered about the environment, but it must be noted that the mother in generation four was one of seven sisters, one of whom was idiotic, and no doubt licentious, and five others, harlots, one of them keeping a brothel ; while, on the father's (see chart III, gen. 4, line 37), there was one sister who also kept a brothel. Whether this pair removed from the vicinity of their relations has not been learned, and what were the other particulars of their career are unknown. This case looks more like one of pure heredity than any that has been traced. Case 2. Taking line 13, and following the heredity, we have (gen. 6) two illegitimate children of a white woman. One of them was a mulatto girl, wdio died at one year old of syphilis, whose mother (gen. 5) w^as a bastard harlot, afflicted with the same disease, whose mother (gen. 4) was a harlot afflicted likewise in the constitutional form, inherited from her licentious father, whose mother, Ada, was a harlot. Now for the environment. The infant girl who died was conceived by the roadside, and born in the jioor-house. Its mother (gen. 5) was a vagrant child, her mother having no home for her. So neglected was she, that at seven years, she was committed to the county jail for a misdemeanor. She was idle, disgustingly dirty, and for that reason could get no place as a servant, and as she must live, fell into the practice of prostitution. Her half-sister also had an illegitimate child, while other relations and acquaintances gave the example of profligacy. Her mother (gen. 4) was married twice — then cohabited with the man who became the father of this girl. When this man went to the war in ] 863, he deserted her, and she followed the example of her other four prostitute sisters, one of whom kept a brothel. Going back to the father (gen. 3) we find him a soldier in the war of 1812, very licentious, whose two harlot sisters married mulattoes. As this was at a time when slavery existed in this State, the social condition under which this consorting took place is significant. We have here an environment in three generations which corresponds to the heredity; this environment forming an example to the younger generation which must have been sufficient, without heredity, to stimu- late licentious practices.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292759_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
