The Jukes Family - Harris' Reports

Harris' Reports

Elisha Harris, a doctor and former president of the American Public Health Association, published reports that a woman called Margaret in Upstate New York, was the "mother of criminals" and described her children as "a race of criminals, paupers and harlots".

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