| Description | <p>Ethel Elderton, with the assistance of Karl Pearson, "A First Study of the Influence of Parental Alcoholism on the Physique and Ability of the Offspring", <i>Eugenics Laboratory Memoirs</i>, X, (London: Dulau & Co, 1910).</p>
<p>Enclosed within the volume are clippings from <i>The Times</i> regarding the debate concerning alcoholism, efficiency and neglect which was playing out in its letters pages; plus manuscript notes and tables regarding wages, alcohol consumption, and the provision of poor relief; and letters from Helen Kerr to Pearson regarding his enquiries into the Edinburgh Social Investigation Report, and letters from Ethel Elderton to Pearson regarding the wage question and the classification of employed / unemployed. </p> |