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Excerpt from: The Tribe Of Ishmael: A Study In Social Degradation Do any of these get out of the festering mass? Of this whole number, I know of but one who has escaped, and is to-day an honorable man. I have tried again and again to lift them, but they sink back. They are a decaying stock; they cannot longer live self-dependent. The children reappear with the old basket. The girl begins the life of prostitution, and is soon seen with her own illegitimate child.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | The Tribe Of Ishmael: A Study In Social Degradation | |
| Creator: | Oscar M'Culloch (author) | |
| Date: | 1888 | |
| Format: | Article | |
| Publication: | Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | vol.15, pp.154-159 | |
| Keywords: | Almshouses; Blind; Charity; Children; Crime; Eugenics; Heredity; Ideologies; Indiana; Insanity; Jukes; Kentucky; Medicine & Science; Physical Disability; Policy; Poverty; Prostitution; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Religion; Sensory Disability; Sexuality; Social Welfare; Social Work | |
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