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A Note on the Influence of Maternal Inebriety on the Offspring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. C. Sullivan*
Affiliation:
R.U.I., H.M. Convict Prison, Parkhurst

Extract

The object of the following paper is to present the result of a number of observations touching certain aspects of the question of habitual inebriety, notably the rôle of maternal alcoholism as an agent in race degeneracy.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1899

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(4) During the year ending March, 1898, of 7240 females committed to Walton Gaol, 6212 had been in prison previously, and of these 2290 had served upwards of twenty terms of imprisonment (Report of H.M. Commissioners of Prisons). Recidivism in local prisons practically implies habitual inebriety.Google Scholar

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