Show r t 1 I 1 l if 1 A real R M MENACE BACE many mady interesting proofs of the ii it len tance of feebleminded feeble minded ness liaw leavel been established by the utah commission from the invests In investigation vesti aaion of the feebleminded feeble minded which bap just completed a general survey of six counties in utah says tho the Tribune the most interesting of these family histories have been charted by miss sadie myers and miss jano jane griffith fl n id 14 workers for tho the commission lom mission the charts have been hune hung in the offic offices s of dr gowans in the state capitol which miss griffith I and miss myers will explain to any of the public in te rested in the results of the survey one chak chat cha k t Is a section of the family history of one of the families in vesti gated by the commission it shows the offspring of ibe he union of a feeble minded man and a r normal amal woman out of 22 descendants of this couple nine are I 1 known to bo be definitely feebleminded feeble minded or insane nothing is known of the parents of this feeble minded man he lie roar mar ned ried a normal woman and of their five chil children dien four vera vere considered normal and one insane feebleminded feeble minded roundedness ness h s a rece recessive sive characteristic which according to the laws of inherit ance may lie dormant in part of the offspring and appear in full fall force in others from the union of two feebleminded feeble minded individuals only feebleminded feeble minded offspring can result from the union of a feebleminded feeble minded in dividu alanda and a normal individual all may be normal but carry the ability of transmitting feeble minded ness of the union of two individuals carrying the tendency toward feeble mindedness 25 per cent will be nor mal 50 per cent will inherit the re c asive characteristics of feeble mindedness 25 per cent will be fee ble minded or mentally def deficient lelent in some soine form tho the man aho vho ho later died in an in sine asylum married a feeble mind ed woman and of their five childr children cn four are known to be definitely fee blo ble minded the mother of these c ildren lies and steals is slovenly y i no receives aid from the church her firby child isoba is of a very low type inen mentally tall able to do some rough work but has to be taken care of oy her mother the second is able to work only under close supervision and nearly starves his wife and child he ile married a feebleminded feeble minded woman who was wayward and unmoral and they have one child who is an idiot and cannot walk or talk the third child is the exception of the family for cl but is feebleminded feeble minded like the theothlis theo theis s the fifth child is feeble minded and unmoral she has had one ille gati estimate mate child she then married a mexican 66 years old and they have bave bad had four children the first child ia Is 10 years old and in the second grado grade she bai bat the mentality of a byear old child according to the binet test the second child is very slow in a chool the other two children childre nare are too young to measure as yet this 13 1 the family history of just one member of the family of children phildren of the couple there were three other ek children ildren in this family who vilio were feebleminded feeble minded and whose family histories are simply a ij of the brother another of the most interesting charts prepared from the survey Is 6 that showing the result of Int interman ermar ariage in one town the entire lotion lation is made up of ahe he descendants of five families which have inter matted married frequently in each generation the results tram from these inter marriages show graphically all its in idiol consequences and range from alcoholism and sexual immorality to feeble r windedness and idiocy of the six counties in utah that have been geen investigated bj by the corn com mission appointed by the laist legislature the results obtained even fat far are invaluable for the records of 0 eu euenice enica not only in utah but for the national records as well fmc of the charts und family his tones tortes are open to the public and mm to examined in itt the offices of the slite superintendent of public in at ruction 61 |