X.1 DISEASE. 177
Fathers and Mothers and their ages at death, and severally classified them as in the Table below. It must be understood that there is nothing in the Table to show how the persons were paired. The Fathers are treated as a group by themselves, and the Mothers as a separate group, also by themselves.
CAUSES OF DEATH OF THE PARENTS OF THOSE FRATERNITIES IN WHICH
CONSUMPTION GREATLY PREVAILED.
|
Age at
Father. death. |
Age at
Mother. death. |
Order of
ages at death. |
|
F. |
M. |
|
Asthma |
70 |
Consumption |
40 |
51 |
40 |
|
Bronchitis . |
89 |
Consumption |
43 |
52 |
42 |
|
InfE kidneys and bronchitis . |
73 |
Consumption |
47 |
59 |
43 |
|
Abscess of liver through lung(alive |
Consumption |
55 |
62 |
44 |
|
Heart |
68 |
Consumption |
66 |
68 |
47 |
|
Heart |
74 |
Consumption |
66 |
70 |
50 |
|
Apoplexy |
62 |
Water on chest . . |
60 |
73 |
58 |
|
Apoplexy |
75 |
Weak chest. . (alive) |
74 |
60 |
|
Apoplexy |
78 |
(1 hr. and 2 ss. d. of cons.) |
74 |
65 |
|
Decay |
74 |
HRmorrhage of lungs . |
44 |
75 |
66 |
|
Cancer |
62 |
Ossification of heart . . |
50 |
76 |
73 |
|
Senile gangrene . . . |
76 |
Nose bleeding |
83 |
78 |
74 |
|
(2 bros. d. of cancer). ' |
|
Cancer |
42 |
89 |
83 |
|
Mortification of toe . . . . |
59 |
Atrophy |
73 |
|
|
|
Accident .
(3 bros, and 2 as. d. of cons.) |
51 |
Age |
74 |
|
|
Very little account is given of the fraternities to which the fathers and mothers belong, and nothing of interest beyond what is included in the above.
The contrast is here most striking between the tendencies of the Father and Mother to transmit a serious consumptive taint to their children. The cases were selected without the slightest bias in favour of showing this result ; in fact, such is the incapacity to see statistical facts clearly until they are pointed out, that I had no idea of the extraordinary tendency on
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