had also been arrested several times for soliciting.  The tenth, a boy, was involved in several delinquencies when young and was sent to the detention-house but did not remain there long.  The eleventh, a boy... at the age of seventeen was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years on a charge of first-degree robbery; after serving a portion of his time, he was paroled, and later was shot and killed in a fight.  The twelfth, a boy, was at fifteen years of age implicated in a murder and sent to the industrial school, but escaped from there on a bicycle which he had stolen; at eighteen, he was shot and killed by a woman.  The thirteenth child, feeble-minded, is the girl of the study.  The fourteenth, a boy was considered by police to be the best member of the family; his mother reported him to be much slower mentally than his sister just mentioned; he had been arrested several times.  Once, he was held in the detention-home and once sent to the State Industrial school; at other times, he was placed on probation.  The fifteenth, a girl sixteen years old, has for a long time had a bad reputation.  Subsequent to the commitment of her sister to the Kansas State Industrial Farm, she was arrested on a charge of vagrancy, found to by syphilitic, and quarantined in a state other than Kansas.  At the time of her arrest, she stated that prostitution was her occupation.  The last child was a boy of thirteen years whose history was not secured...."(1)

The notorious fecundity of feeble-minded women is emphasized in studies and investigations of the problem, coming from all countries.  “The feeble-minded woman is twice as prolific as the normal one.”  Sir James Crichton-Browne speaks of the great numbers of feeble-minded girls, wholly unfit to become mothers, who return to the work-house year after year to bear children, “many of whom happily die, but some of whom survive to recruit our idiot establishments and to repeat their mothers’ performances.”  Tredgold points out that the number of children born to the feeble-minded is abnormally high.  Feeble-minded women “constitute a permanent menace to the race and one which becomes serious at a time when the decline of the birth-rate is... unmistakable.”  Dr. Tredgold points out that “the average number of children born in a family is four,” whereas in these degenerate families, we find an average of 7.3 to each.  Out of this total only a little more than one-third—­456 out of a total of 1,269 children—­can be considered profitable members of the community, and that, be it remembered, at the parents’ valuation.

Another significant point is the number of mentally defective children who survive.  “Out of the total number of 526 mentally affected persons in the 150 families, there are 245 in the present generation—­an unusually large survival."(2)

Speaking for Bradford, England, Dr. Helen U. Campbell touches another significant and interesting point usually neglected by the advocates of mothers’ pensions, milk-stations, and maternity-education programs.