Wilson gives an account of a girl thirteen years old, who gave
birth to a full-grown female child after three hours' labor. She
made a speedy convalescence, but the child died four weeks
afterward from bad nursing. The lad who acknowledged paternity
was nineteen years old. King reports a well-verified case of
confinement in a girl of eleven. Both the mother and child did
well.
Robertson of Manchester describes a girl, working in a cotton
factory, who was a mother at twelve; de La Motte mentions
pregnancy before twelve; Kilpatrick in a negress, at eleven years
and six months; Fox, at twelve; Hall, at twelve; Kinney, at
twelve years, ten months, and sixteen days; Herrick, at thirteen
years and nine months; Murillo, at thirteen years; Philippart, at
fourteen years; Stallcup, at eleven years and nine months;
Stoakley, at thirteen years; Walker, at the age of twelve years
and eight months; another case, at twelve years and six months;
and Williams, at eleven.
An editorial article in the Indian Medical Gazette of Sept.,
1890, says:--
"The appearance of menstruation is held by the great majority of
natives of India to be evidence and proof of marriageability, but
among the Hindu community it is considered disgraceful that a
girl should remain unmarried until this function is established.
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