The physical
deterioration of the recruits who offer themselves for the army is a
subject of increasing concern. There are grounds for at least suspecting
a growing degeneracy of the population of the United Kingdom,
particularly in the great towns."
The following table gives the charges before Magistrates in our
Courts:--
Year. Proportion per thousand of
mean population.
1894 24.76
1897 26.87
1898 29.42
1899 29.48
1900 31.54
1901 33.20
1902 35.19
Now who are the unfit? Are they more fertile than the fit? and do they
propagate their kind?
The following defects constitute their victims members of that great
class of degenerates who are unfit to procreate healthy normal
offspring. Many of these conditions are partly congenital and partly
acquired, but in the majority of defectives a transmitted taint is
present.
I. Congenital defects:--
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