To complete the story, the
father of this child was a boy of fifteen. One of the faculty of
Montpellier has reported an instance at New Orleans of a young
girl of eleven, who became impregnated by a youth who was not yet
sixteen. Maygrier says that he knew a girl of twelve, living in
the Faubourg Saint-Germain, who was confined.
Harris relates the particulars of the case of a white girl who
began to menstruate at eleven years and four months, and who gave
birth to an over- sized male child on January 21, 1872, when she
was twelve years and nine months old. She had an abundance of
milk and nursed the child; the labor was of about eighteen hours'
duration, and laceration was avoided. He also speaks of a mulatto
girl, born in 1848, who began to menstruate at eleven years and
nine months, and gave birth to a female child before she reached
thirteen, and bore a second child when fourteen years and seven
months old. The child's father was a white boy of seventeen.
The following are some Indian statistics: 1 pregnancy at ten, 6
at eleven, 2 at eighteen, 1 at nineteen. Chevers speaks of a
mother at ten and others at eleven and twelve; and Green, at
Dacca, performed craniotomy upon the fetus of a girl of twelve.
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