Abstract
A MEMOIR “On the Inheritance of the Diathesis of Phthisis and Insanity,” by Dr. Charles Goring, has been issued by Messrs. Dulau and Co. in the series of Drapers' Company Research Memoirs, emanating from the Department of Applied Mathematics, University College, London. The methods used are similar to those employed by Prof. Pearson in his “First Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis” and by Mr. Heron in his “First Study of the Statistics of Insanity,” but the data are better in one respect, inasmuch as they are based, not on hospital or asylum cases, but upon information obtained respecting the inmates of convict prisons. Whether, however, such a sample can be correctly described as a random sample of the general population, as the author holds, is certainly open to question.
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