vely tattooed and showed
remains of an old syphilitic lesion.

Upon his release from the Government Hospital for the Insane, he was
given a year's sentence in the workhouse, and the Press has been
reporting frequent misdemeanors performed by him in the workhouse.

This case is interesting only in so far as it illustrates
exceptionally well the role of alcoholism in the habitual criminal. It
is, however, very difficult to decide whether the alcohol should be
considered here the cause of the man's degeneracy or its result. It
would appear that whatever injurious effect inebriety had upon this
man, and unquestionably it had, he owes his anomalies of character to
causes over which he had no control. We find that his father was a
chronic alcoholic, his mother a neurotic, a maternal aunt insane, and
an uncle a suicide. That these pathological traits in the antecedents
left their impressions on him cannot be doubted for one minute. He was
abnormal before environment and personal habits had had time to make
themselves felt. He, too, oscillated between penal institutions and
the Hospital for the Insane all his lifetime. That the same
degenerative basis lies at the bottom of both his moral and mental
alienation, cannot be doubted. Here, too, we are able at this date to
furnish other additional information. The patient was eventually
discharged from the Hospital for a similar reason as in the preceding
case, and in spite of all his promises and new resolutions was
readmitted to the Hospital on October 13, 1913 with an attack of
delirium tremens.

Let us endeavor to see now in what respects the above individuals
simulate one another, and whether this similarity is of sufficient
import to warrant the grouping of them into one category. Commencing
with the family history we find disease and crime manifest in the
antecedents, either direct or indirect, of all of them, that in all
probability because of this, not one of these unfortunates was brought
into the world with a sufficient impetus to carry him successfully to
his goal. In every instance we find that the characterological anomaly
became manifest already during their school career. It was the
persistent truancy, disobedience and antagonism to submission to a
well-regulated existence and not so much the incapacity to learn, which
distinguished them from the other children in school. The same
attributes of character which were at