| Show tho if demme studied ten tell families famili es of drink ers and ten families of sober persons the direct posterity of the tile ten families 0 of f drinkers included fifty fiat seven children cli ildren of these twenty evv anty civo in 0 died in ta thy I 1 first weeks or months of their life bix were idiots ili in five children a striking back n their longitudinal th was observed fire vero were affected with epilepsy epi leps civo with inborn disease di teases sone one boy was as taken with etli chorea and became idiotic thus of tho lift se en children of drinkers only ten or 17 5 per cent showed sho ed a normal constitution and devel dc el lent I 1 the ten sober families had sixt sixty one children five only ding lying in the first beeks acs ics four were ei e affected with etli incur incurable aLle diseases of tho the nervous system two only presented inborn defects the remail 1 ing fifty aft 81 0 per cent were normal in their constitution and development from this teries tenes of investing invest dinv inv ig actions at ions we w e de rive the sad truth that among the chil ebil dren of drinkers the prevailing mortality ty is is so fearful that the survivors represent a pitiful crowd afflicted with unsoundness of mind idiocy epilepsy and other disorders of their nervous system and that onlia very ey small proportion of the descendants grow up tip useful mem bera of society catholic review Rei ev |
