families, and on which I average a fraction over one visit a day. I
have, besides, many private families among the Jews. I have attended but
few cases of consumption, and I think the disease is not so prevalent as
among Christians.'"

The same report of Dr. Bowditch quotes from Stallard's "London Pauperism
Amongst Jews and Christians," as saying that there is no hereditary
syphilis, and scarcely any scrofula to augment the mortality in the
Jewish families.

In relation to the liability of the Hebrew race to phthisis, Richardson
has the following at page 22 of his "Diseases of Modern Life": "The
special inroads on vitality made on other races by disease are not
easily determined, because of the difficulties arising from temporary
admixture of race. I tried once to elicit some facts from a large
experience of a particular disease, phthisis pulmonalis, and, as the
results of this attempt may be useful, I put them briefly on record.

"At a public institution at which large numbers of persons afflicted
with chest diseases applied for medical assistance, and at which I was
for many years one of the physicians, I made notes during a short
portion of the time of the connection that existed between race and the
particular disease I have instanced--phthisis pulmonalis, or pulmonary
consumption. The number of persons observed under the disease was three
hundred, and no person was put on the record who was not suffering from
a malady pure and simple; I mean without complication with any other
malady. They who were thus studied were of four classes: (_a_) those who
were by race distinctly Saxon; (_b_) those who were of mixed race, or
whose race could not be determined; (_c_) those who were distinctly
Celtic; (_d_) those who were distinctly Jewish.

"The results were, that of the three hundred patients, one hundred and
thirty-three, 44.33 per cent., were Saxon; one hundred and eighteen,
39.33 per cent., were of mixed or undetermined race; thirty-one, 10.33
per cent., were Celtic; and eighteen, 6 per cent., were Jewish."

Although Dr. Richardson admits it would be unfair to accept the above
figures as a basis for general application, he argues that they are, on
the average, sufficiently suggestive, as among the Saxons it was noticed
that there were more cases in whom the disease was hereditary, while
among the others it was generally acquired.

In going over the subject of this question in regard to phthisis, we
must admit tha