Marriages of the deaf in AmericaVolta Bureau, 1898 - 527 pages |
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11 Wife 1890 Husband Wife 2d to Wife 9 Wife Age of deafness Assigned cause birth Brain fever Brother of Husb Brother of Wife Brothers and Sisters cause of deafness Cerebro-sp Coll concerning deaf rela Date of information Date of marriage Dead deaf children born deaf offspring deaf or hearing deaf partners deaf persons deaf relatives deaf where educated Hartford Died Hartford Hartford Husb Wife including brothers Inflam information concerning deaf Kans marriages resulting Measles N. Y. Impr'd nieces Wife number and percentage Ohio Parents cousins Parents second cousins partner congenitally deaf partner deaf partner had deaf partner reported PARTNERS IN MARRIAGE Reference number resulting in deaf Scarlet fever School Second marriage second to Husb second to Wife Sickness Sister of Husb Sister of Wife sisters nor children Spinal meningitis Spotted fever Total Typhoid fever uncles Husb Unknown Whooping cough Wife Husband
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Page 121 - but, so far as I am aware, no attempt has hitherto been made to ascertain the results of consanguineous marriages of deaf persons. Indeed, the probable results of such marriages have scarcely been considered, except briefly by Dr. Bell in an Appendix to an Address on the subject of Marriage, delivered before the
Page 36 - that marriages in which both of the partners are deaf are somewhat less productive than marriages in which one of the partners is deaf and the other is a hearing person. * Marriages of the deaf resulting in offspring. Both partners deaf One partner deaf; the other hearing One partner deaf ; the other
Page 63 - Dr. Bell laid special emphasis upon the more remote results which he believed would follow marriages in which both of the partners were congenitally deaf, formulating the theory thus : " If the laws of heredity that are known to hold in the case of animals also apply to man, the intermarriage of congenital deaf-mutes through a num•
Page 38 - Taking the deaf as a whole, without regard to the character of the deafness, marriages in which both of the partners are deaf are not more liable to result in deaf offspring than marriages in which one of the partners is deaf and the other is a hearing person. The
Page 64 - ber of successive generations should result in the formation of a deaf variety of the human race."* The theory as thus formulated has been accepted by such eminent men of science as Francis Galton in England.t Alphonse de
Page 37 - more liable to result in deaf offspring than marriages in which one of the partners is deaf and the other is a hearing person ? In seeking an answer to this question I shall pursue the same method as in Chapter I, regarding
Page 65 - the eminent French authority on heredity, quoting Mr. Sedgwick's suggestion without expressing dissent, says: "Many physiologists have thought that when both parents present the same characteristics heredity may acquire such power as to destroy itself." § Darwin also cites Mr. Sedgwick's remark, but wisely adds that " it is as searching and exhaustive as the data at
Page 121 - CHAPTER V. CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGES OF THE DEAF. WHEN pupils are admitted to American schools for the deaf the question is usually asked whether their parents were related by blood, and from the replies to this question statistics have been collated showing a considerable percentage of deaf children born from consanguineous marriages in general