making
in all the sum of L13,500. The father was ordered to pay at the rate of
15s. a week, but the amount recovered from him to date is only L156.

_Case No. 6._
+---------------------+-----------------------+
| Father: | Mother: |
| Subnormal. Was a | Has always been |
| watersider, so | addicted to periodic |
| dirty in habits | fits of insanity. |
| that watersiders | Has been in mental |
| complained. A | hospital on several |
| sexual case. | occasions. |
| | |
+--------------------------------+----------------+
| | Female, |
| | born 1904. |
| | Subnormal. |
| +----------------+
| | Female, |
| | born 1909. |
|These four children were | Subnormal; |
|committed to the care of |also delinquent.|
|the state in 1917. +----------------+
| | Female, |
| | born 1915. |
| | Subnormal. |
| +----------------+
| | Female, |
| | born 1916. |
| | Subnormal. |
|--------------------------------+----------------+
| | Unknown |
|Not yet brought under +----------------+
|State control. | Unknown |
| +----------------+
| | Unknown |
+--------------------------------+----------------+

The approximate cost to the State of maintaining these four children
will be L5,150, less what is recovered from the father. Up to the
present the amount received from him is L176. Should the other three
children be brought under State control, the additional cost may amount
to approximately L5,000.

This is a glaring case of persons being allowed to marry who are totally
unfit to marry. A relative stated that the mother's mentality was in a
shocking state at the time of marriage. The father has alw