THE TREATMENT OF GONORRHŒA IN THE MALE IN GENERAL PRACTICE

yearson the paternalside and at least135 yearson the maternalside. 2. That this hal'! not beenaccompaniedby loss of European characteristicsof complexion and features, except as a result of admixture of native blood, and that even when so diluted the European physical characteristicsstill come out strongly in the fifth and sixth generations. 3. 'I'hat the Europeanstandardof mentality, as shown by reaction to Europeanmethodsof education, persists in substantialdegree after five and six generations. 4. That these characteristicshave survived in spite of environmentalconditions and associations lastingfor over sixty years,from 1819 onwards,and probablyfor some seventyyearsor more, which are generallysupposedto be totally unsuitablefor personsof Europeanstock. Theseconditions have included native standardsof food and food supply, endemic malaria, the psychological effect of what musthavebeenfor the earlier generationsan acute senseof abandonment by their own race, life under the rule of native chiefs, constantassociationwith a native race of low mentality, loss of European languageand Europeanreligion, inter-breeding to a high degreeand constantexposureto a tropical climate. 5. That thereis nothing in the availablehistory of thesepeopleto show that a tropical climate per se has tendedto producedegenerativeeffects on them or to limit fertility. 6. That whateverevidencethey may have shown of lowered physical or mental activity in the past can be fully explainedby the environmentalconditions of food supply, malaria and particularly of native associations,aided possibly by the accentuation of stock-weaknesses arising from inter-breeding over severalgenerations. 7. That the measuresadoptedby the Government during recentyearsappearto have resultedin definite improvementin their physicalandmentalcondition, particularlyamongstthe childrenof schoolage.