Life of Francis Galton by Karl Pearson Vol 3a : image 0090

Correlation and Application of Statistics to Problems of Heredity 71

inadequate must be the schedule-series which can be collected by any single 'investigator however energetic. Galton's deduced schedule extracted fromhis data was a good one, but I should like to see added two columns, one for occupations and one for domiciles, under which latter heading I understand such descriptions as "rural," "urban," "India," "Nigeria," etc., stating years of life in each domicile. I reproduce one of Galton's working schedules, in

Sample of one of Galton's Schedules for Heredity of Disease

		Father's Name James	Gladding
		Mother's Maiden Name Mary Claremont
Initials	Kin	Principal Illnesses and Ailments	Cause of Death	Age	at Death
J.G. R.G. W.G. F. L. C.G. M.G. A.C. W.C. E.C. F.R. R.N. L. C. M.G. K.G. G.L. F.S. R. F. L.G.	Father Brother Brother Sister Sister Mother Brother Brother Brother Sister Sister Sister Offspring Brother Brother Sister Sister Sister Sister	Bad rheum. fever; agonising headaches; diarrhoea; bron chitis ; pleurisy Rheum. ; gout Good health except gout ; paralysis later Rheum. fever; rheum. gout Delicate (inoculated and died) Tendency to lung disease; biliousness ; frequent heart attacks Good health Led a wild life Always delicate Smallpox three times Bilious ; weak health 7 Inflam. lungs; rheum. fever Debility; heart disease ; colds Bad headaches; coughs; weak spine; hysteria; apoplexy Bad colds; inflam. lungs ; hysteria Infantile paralysis ; colds ; nervous depression Inflam. brain, also lungs; neuralgia; nervous fever Space left for remarks	Heart Disease Apoplexy Apoplexy Apoplexy Smallpox Heart Disease and Dropsy Accident Premature Old Age Consumption General Failure Cancer Fever Heart Disease Consumption Paralysis ........................ ........................ ........................		54 56 83 73 7 63 46 62 19 85 50 21 17 40 50 Living Living Living

Suggested additions, columns for occupation and environment. Also transfer the word " Living " from " Age at Death " to " Cause of Death " column, and if living state age at time of record.

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