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Volume 2, Number 6, January, 1840Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 467--476 Rawson W. Rawson On the Decline of Popular Instruction in Belgium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385--396 Statistical Committee of the Town Council Report upon the Condition of the Town of Leeds and of its Inhabitants . . . . . . 397--424 John Capper An Outline of the Commercial Statistics of Ceylon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424--434 Local Sub-Committee Contributions to the Economical Statistics of Birmingham . . . . . . . . 434--441 Anonymous Social and Moral Statistics of Criminal Offenders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442--445 Anonymous On the Sulphur Trade of Sicily, and the Commercial Relations between that Country and Great Britain . . . . . . . 446--457 W. Felkin Statistics of the Labouring Classes and Paupers in Nottingham . . . . . . . . . 457--459 Anonymous Proceedings of Statistical Societies . . 459--461 Anonymous A Further List of Statistical Papers Printed by the Houses of Parliament during the Present Session of 1839 . . . 461--461 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462--466
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Sixth Annual Report of the Council of the Statistical Society of London . . . 1--13 Anonymous Report of a Committee of the Statistical Society of London, on the State of the Working Classes in the Parishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster . . . 14--24 Anonymous Report of the State of Education in Birmingham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--49 George Weight Statistics of the Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark . . . . . . . . . 50--71 Anonymous Report to the Council of the Statistical Society of London, from the Committee Appointed to Consider the Best Mode of Taking the Census of the United Kingdom in 1841 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--102 Rowland Hill On the Effect of the New Postage Arrangements upon the Number of Letter 102--105 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106--108 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109--112
Anonymous Report of a Committee of the Statistical Society of London, Appointed to Collect and Enquire into Vital Statistics, Upon the Sickness and Mortality Among the European and Native Troops Serving in the Madras Presidency, from the Year 1793 to 1838 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113--143 Lieut.-Col. Sykes Statistics of the Metropolitan Commission in Lunacy . . . . . . . . . . 143--160 M. Henry Meidinger An Historical and Statistical Account of the Book-Trade, from the Earliest Records to the Year 1840, with Particular Reference to Germany . . . . 161--190 Wm. Johns Report upon the Working of the Registration and Marriage Acts, during the Two Years 1837--38 and 1838--39, in the Registration District of Manchester 191--205 Anonymous Proceedings of Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205--206 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206--208
Anonymous Tenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Sciences, September, 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . 209--211 W. P. Alison Illustrations of the Practical Operation of the Scottish System of Management of the Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211--257 Robert Cowan Vital Statistics of Glasgow, Illustrating the Sanatory Condition of the Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257--292 Henry John Porter On the Mont de Piete System of Pawnbroking in Ireland . . . . . . . . . 293--303 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--304
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 401--408 Daniel Griffin An Enquiry into the Mortality Occurring Among the Poor of the City of Limerick 305--330 Rawson W. Rawson An Enquiry into the Condition of Criminal Offenders in England and Wales, with Respect to Education; or, Statistics of Education among the Criminal and General Population of England and other Countries . . . . . . 331--352 William Augustus Guy On the Best Method of Collecting and Arranging Facts, with a Proposed New Plan of Common-Place Book . . . . . . . 353--366 G. S. Kenrick Statistics of the Population in the Parish of Trevethin (Pontypoll) and at the Neighbouring Works of Blaenavon in Monmouthshire, Chiefly Employed in the Iron Trade, and Inhabiting Part of the District Recently Distributed . . . . . 366--375 M. Henry Meidinger A Statistical Account of the Book Trade of Various Countries. Part II . . . . . 376--386 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--387 Anonymous A List of Statistical Papers printed by the House of Parliament, during the Session 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387--394 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394--400
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii A. M. Tulloch Comparison of the Sickness, Mortality, and Prevailing Disease among Seamen and Soldiers, as Shewn by the Naval and Military Statistical Reports . . . . . . 1--16 William Farr Report Upon the Mortality of Lunatics 17--33 Charles Barham Remarks on the Abstract of the Parish Registers of Tavistock, Devon . . . . . 34--49 James Heywood Report on the State of Superior General Education in Paris . . . . . . . . . . . 50--66 Professor Adrien Statistics of the Principal Public Libraries in Germany . . . . . . . . . . 66--69 Anonymous Seventh Annual Report of the Council of the Statistical Society of London . . . 69--75 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--77 Anonymous A List of Statistical Papers Printed by the Houses of Parliament, during the Session 1841 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78--79 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80--84
Rowland Hill Results of the New Postage Arrangements 85--99 Joseph Fletcher A Statistical Account of the Ancient Prescriptive Jurisdictions Over The Thames, Possessed by the Corporation of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--110 P. L. Simmonds Statistics of Newspapers in Various Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--136 Anonymous Second Report of a Committee of the Statistical Society of London, Appointed to Collect and Enquire into Vital Statistics, Upon the Sickness and Mortality Among the European and Native Troops Serving in the Madras Presidency 137--155 Manchester Statistical Society Report on the State of Education in the Borough of Kingston-Upon-Hull . . . . . 156--175 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176--180
Anonymous Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Held at Plymouth, July, 1841 181--182 Henry Woolcombe Statistics of the Three Towns of Plymouth, Stonehouse, and Devonport . . 183--196 C. Lemon Notes on the Agricultural Produce of Cornwall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197--208 Henry John Porter A Statistical Account of Loan Funds in Ireland, for the Year 1840 . . . . . . . 209--224 Quetelet and X. Heuschling Letter Addressed to the Statistical Section of the British Association, by the President of the Central Statistical Commission of Belgium . . . . . . . . . 224--227 Anonymous Report on the State of the Polytechnic School in Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . 228--249 Committee of a Statistical Society of Bristol Statistics of Education in Bristol . . . 250--267 Anonymous Effects of the Metropolitan Police Act (2 and 3 Vic., cap. 47, sec. 42), Requiring Public Houses to be Closed on the Sabbath Morning . . . . . . . . . . 268--269 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269--276
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 363--368 G. R. Porter An Examination of Some Facts Obtained at the Recent Enumeration of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, so Far as the same have been Published by the Census Commissioners . . . . . . . . . . 277--287 W. P. Alison Further Illustrations of the Practical Operation of the Scotch System of Management of the Poor . . . . . . . . . 288--319 Wm. Neild Comparative Statement of the Income and Expenditure of Certain Families of the Working Class in Manchester and Dukinfield, in the Years 1836 and 1841 320--334 H. Burney On the Population of the Burman Empire 335--347 Henry John Porter On the Monts de Piete of Rome, Genoa, Turin, and Paris, and Other Pawnbroking Establishments on the Continent . . . . 348--357 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--358 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359--362
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Errata: Eighth Annual Report of the Council of the Statistical Society of London, Session 1841--42 . . . . . . . . iv--iv Joseph Fletcher Errata: Statistics of the Municipal Institutions of the English Towns . . . iv--iv Anonymous Errata: Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . iv--iv H. L. Jones Report on General Education, Superior, Secondary, and Primary, in France . . . 1--31 Rawson W. Rawson On the Prices and Fluctuations of Grain in Prussia and England, from 1816 to 1841 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--46 John Goodwin Progress of the Two Sicilies Under the Spanish Bourbons, from the Year 1734--35 to 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--73 Henry Ashworth Statistics of the Present Depression of Trade at Bolton; Showing the Mode in Which it Affects the Different Classes of a Manufacturing Population . . . . . 74--81 Charles Cowan Report of Private Medical Practice for 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--86 Anonymous Eighth Annual Report of the Council of the Statistical Society of London, Session 1841--42 . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--90 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--96
Joseph Fletcher Statistics of the Municipal Institutions of the English Towns . . . . . . . . . . 97--168 Anonymous Report of the Committee on Hospital Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--176 John Goodwin Progress of the Two Sicilies Under the Spanish Bourbons, from the Year 1734--35 to 1840 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--207 A. Quetelet Notice on Periodical Phenomena . . . . . 208--209 Leopold and King of the Belgians Royal Decree, Dated 20th Oct., 1841, for the Regulation of the Functions and Operations of the Central Statistical Commission of Belgium, Appointed by a Decree of 16th March, 1841 . . . . . . . 209--212 Statistical Society of Manchester Report on the Condition of the Working Classes in the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull . . . . . . . . . . . 212--221 Joseph Fletcher Abstract from a Register of Accidents in the Coal Mines of the Chamber and Werneth Company, at Oldham, During the Year Ended October, 1841 . . . . . . . . 222--225 C. R. Weld On Accidents Upon the Railways in Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226--229 Anonymous Comparative Chances of Life in Different Classes of the Community . . . . . . . . 230--230 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230--231 Anonymous Miscellanea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231--234
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 315--318 James Heywood and Professor Powell Statistics of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235--244 Henry Ashworth Statistical Illustrations of the Past and Present State of Lancashire, and More Particularly of the Hundred of Salford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245--256 Richard Parkinson On the Origin, Custody, and Value of Parish Registers, with an Abstract of the Registers of the Collegiate Church of Manchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256--263 R. W. Hopkins Capital Punishments in Lancashire During the Last Sixty Years . . . . . . . . . . 263--265 Charles Shaw Police Statistics of the Week's End in Manchester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--268 John Shuttleworth Vital Statistics of the Spinners and Piecers Employed in the Fine Spinning Mills of Manchester . . . . . . . . . . 268--273 D. Noble On the Influence of the Factory System in the Development of Pulmonary Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274--280 Ner Gardiner On the Moral and Industrial Workhouse School About to be Erected by the Guardians of the Poor of the Manchester Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--282 Henry John Porter On the Increasing Operation of Loan Funds in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--288 Davies Gilbert On the Self-Supporting Reading, Writing, and Agricultural School, at Wallingdon, in Sussex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--289 W. P. Alison On the Destitution and Mortality in Some of the Large Towns in Scotland . . . . . 289--292 C. R. Weld On Accidents in Coal Mines in Belgium and the Provident Institutions Attached to the Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--300 A. Slowaczynski Notices of the Commerce of Russia . . . 300--306 Seymour Tremenheere Educational Statistics, 1840--41 . . . . 306--308 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308--314
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv G. R. Porter An Examination of Some Facts Obtained at the Recent Enumeration of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, in Continuation of a Paper Read Before the Statistical Society of London, on the 20th December, 1841 . . . . . . . . . . 1--16 C. R. Weld On the Condition of the Working Classes in the Inner Ward of St. George's Parish, Hanover Square . . . . . . . . . 17--23 E. Wyatt Edgell On the State of Education in the Inner Ward of St. George's Parish, Hanover Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--27 Anonymous Report of the Education Committee of the Statistical Society of London on the Borough of Finsbury . . . . . . . . . . 28--43 R. W. Rawson Results of Some Inquiries into the Condition and Education of the Poorer Classes in the Parish of Marylebone, in 1838 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48 Seymour Tremenheere Government Expenditure on Education in England, 1841--42 . . . . . . . . . . . 48--50 G. P. R. James Some Observations on The Book Trade, as Connected with Literature, in England 50--60 Anonymous Real Property, Population, and Pauperism in England and Wales . . . . . . . . . . 60--72 John Tidd Pratt The History of Savings' Banks in the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74 Anonymous Twelfth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Held at Manchester, June, 1842 75--76 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society 76--76 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--88
Anonymous Ninth Annual Report of the Council of the Statistical Society of London. Session, 1842--3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93 W. H. Sykes Statistics of Civil and Criminal Justice in British India, Chiefly from the Year 1836 to 1840 Inclusive . . . . . . . . . 94--119 Henry Tremenheere Agricultural and Educational Statistics of Several Parishes in the County of Middlesex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120--130 Joseph Fletcher Contributions to the Agricultural Statistics of the Eastern Counties . . . 130--133 William Augustus Guy and M. B. Cantab An Attempt to Determine the Influence of the Seasons and Weather on Sickness and Mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--150 W. H. Sykes and Lord Sandon and G. R. Porter and J. Heywood and W. P. Alison Report of a Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150--166 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--168 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168--184
M. Passy and John P. Boileau On the Division of Heritable Property, and Its Influence on the Distribution of Wealth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--197 William Augustus Guy Contributions to a Knowledge of the Influence of Employments upon Health . . 197--211 Anonymous Fifth Report and Summary of the Education Committee of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . 211--218 Joseph Fletcher Progress of Crime in the United Kingdom: Abstracted from the Criminal Returns for 1842, and the Prison Returns for the Year Ended at Michaelmas, 1841 . . . . . 218--240 John P. Boileau Statistics of Nice . . . . . . . . . . . 240--246 Robert Everest On the Famines that have Devastated India, and on the Probability of their being Periodical . . . . . . . . . . . . 246--248 C. R. Weld Accidents and Traffic upon the Railways in Great Britain, during 1842; Abstracted from the Third Annual Report of the Officers of the Railway Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249--252 T. Tancred House of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders, Glasgow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252--255 John Edward Martin Statistics of an Agricultural Parish in Bedfordshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255--255 Anonymous Pauperism and Poor-Rates in the Parochial Year 1842; Abstracted from the Ninth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 1843 . . . . . . . . . . 256--259 Anonymous Places of Marriage, Marriages, and Education of the Married, in England and Wales; Abstracted from the Sessional Paper, No. 223, 1843 . . . . . . . . . . 260--261 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--261 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261--280
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 377--388 James Heywood Thirteenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Cork, August 17--23, 1843: Account of the Proceedings of the Statistical Section . . . . . . . . . . 281--282 William Augustus Guy Further Contributions to a Knowledge of the Influence of Employments upon Health 283--304 James Heywood Account of a Report of M. Villemain, the French Minister of Public Instruction, on the State of Superior Education in France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304--310 W. Cooke Taylor State of the Lunatic Poor in Ireland . . 311--317 Dr. Bullen State of Public Medical Relief in Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317--322 Professor Lawson On the Connexion Between Statistics and Political Economy . . . . . . . . . . . 322--322 Captain Larcom Observations on the Census of the Population of Ireland in 1841 . . . . . 323--351 Dr D. Bullen Statistics of an Improved Rural District (the Parish of Kilmurray) in the County of Cork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352--354 W. Cooke Taylor On the Irish Silk Manufacture . . . . . 354--356 Mr. Bianconi On Conveyance of Passengers in the South Ireland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356--357 Henry Biggs Report on the Sanatory Condition of Certain Parts of the City of Cork . . . 357--360 Rev. Professor Powell Further Contributions to Academical Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360 Anonymous Extracts from the Report of the Superintendent of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (Mr. James Braidwood) to the Committee for Managing the London Fire Engine Establishment, on the Fires which Occurred During the Year 1842 . . . . . 361--362 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363--376
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Edwin Chadwick On the Best Modes of Representing Accurately, by Statistical Returns, the Duration of Life, and the Pressure and Progress of the Causes of Mortality Amongst Different Classes of the Community, and Amongst the Populations of Different Districts and Countries . . 1--40 F. G. P. Neison On a Method Recently Proposed for Conducting Inquiries into the Comparative Sanatory Condition of Various Districts, with Illustrations, Derived from Numerous Places in Great Britain at the Period of the Last Census 40--68 Joseph Fletcher The Metropolis: Its Boundaries, Extent, and Divisions for Local Government . . . 69--85 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--87 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
Anonymous Tenth Annual Report of the Council of the Statistical Society of London . . . 97--103 Joseph Fletcher The Metropolis; its Boundaries, Extent, and Divisions for Local Government . . . 103--143 Joseph Fletcher History and Statistics of the Present System of Sewerage in the Metropolis . . 143--170 G. R. Porter An Examination of the Returns made by the Various Railway Companies of the United Kingdom, with Respect to their Traffic During the Year Ending 30th June, 1843 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170--178 Henry Hallam Observations on Certain Passages in the Report of the Irish Census Commissioners 178--180 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181--182 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--192
John Hutchinson Contributions to Vital Statistics, Obtained by Means of a Pneumatic Apparatus for Valuing the Respiratory Powers with Relation to Health . . . . . 193--212 Enrico Mayer Report on the Infant Industrial Schools of Tuscany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213--214 Anonymous Second Report of the Committee of the Statistical Society of London on Hospital Statistics . . . . . . . . . . 214--231 William Augustus Guy A Third Contribution to a Knowledge of the Influence of Employments upon Health 232--243 Major Graham On the Progress of the Population of Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243--250 North Ludlow Beamish Statistical Report on the Physical and Moral Condition of the Working Classes in the Parish of St. Michael, Blackrock, Near Cork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251--254 Anonymous Statistics of Fires in London . . . . . 255--265 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266--280
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 369--371 G. R. Porter A Statistical View of the Recent Progress and Present Amount of Mining Industry in France; Drawn from the Official Reports of the ``Direction Générale des Ponts et Chaussées et des Mines,'' in Continuation of a Paper Read Before the Statistical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at its Meeting in Newcastle in 1838 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--291 John Clendinning Report on the Experience of the St. Marylebone Infirmary, since 1827, with Respect to Admissions, Duration of Treatment, Mortality, and Other Statistical Results, According to Age and Sex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292--310 John Thurnam On the Relative Liability of the Two Sexes to Insanity . . . . . . . . . . . 310--316 J. P. Alison Notes on the Report of the Royal Commissioners on the Operation of the Poor Laws in Scotland, 1844 . . . . . . 316--318 W. H. Sykes The Statistics of the Free City of Frankfort-on-the-Main . . . . . . . . . 318--360 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360--360 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--368
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Captain Maconochie Criminal Statistics and Movement of the Bond Population of Norfolk Island, to December, 1843 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--49 W. H. Sykes On the Population and Mortality of Calcutta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--58 W. H. Sykes Statistics of the Hospitals for the Insane under the Bengal Presidency . . . 58--63 T. Laycock On the Sanatory Condition of the City of York . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--66 William Charles Copperthwaite Statistics of Old and New Malton . . . . 66--68 William A. Guy On the Duration of Life Among the Families of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . 69--77 T. Graham Balfour Comparison of the Sickness, Mortality, and Prevailing Diseases among Seamen and Soldiers, as Shown by the Naval and Military Statistical Reports . . . . . . 77--86 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--86 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--96
Anonymous Eleventh Annual Report of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . 97--103 W. H. Sykes Statistics of the Educational Institutions of the East India Company in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--147 Joseph Fletcher Historical and Statistical Account of the present System of Supplying the Metropolis with Water . . . . . . . . . 148--181 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--182 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182--192
Edward Balfour Statistical Data for Forming Troops and Maintaining them in Health in Different Climates and Localities . . . . . . . . 193--209 Anonymous Remarks on Tables of Marriages in the Irish Census Returns for 1841 . . . . . 209--214 Anonymous Reply to the Preceding Remarks . . . . . 214--215 W. A. Graham Adaptation of Official Returns of Railway Traffic to the General Purposes of Statistical Inquiry . . . . . . . . . 215--236 W. H. Sykes Statistics of the Educational Institutions of the East India Company in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236--273 Theodore Dury Hints for Improving the Condition of Agricultural Labourers . . . . . . . . . 273--275 J. W. Woollgar On the Financial Economy of Savings' Banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275--277 Samuel Gaskell Tables of Accidents Brought to the Stockport Infirmary, and Attended by the House-Surgeon, in the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--281 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281--288
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 369--372 Anonymous Fifteenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Cambridge, June 18th--25th, 1845. Proceedings of the Statistical Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--290 F. G. P. Neison Contributions to Vital Statistics, Especially Designed to Elucidate the Rate of Mortality, the Laws of Sickness, and the Influences of Trade and Locality on Health, Derived from an Extensive Collection of Original Data, Supplied by Friendly Societies, and Proving their too Frequent Instability . . . . . . . . 290--350 William Augustus Guy On the Causes which Determine the Choice of an Employment; being an Addition to the Essays on the Influence of Employments upon Health . . . . . . . . 351--353 Anonymous Incendiarism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353--354 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354--358 Anonymous Currency Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . 358--359 John P. Boileau Memoranda Towards the Agricultural Statistics of Norfolk . . . . . . . . . 360--360 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--368
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Anonymous Objects and Progress of the Statistical Society of London, 12, St. James's Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 G. R. Porter Sketch of the Progress and Present Extent of Savings' Banks in the United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--13 G. S. Kenrick Statistics of Merthyr Tydvil . . . . . . 14--21 Richard Valpy Statistical Account of the Trade and Navigation of Norway, Deduced from Official Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--36 William A. Guy On the Duration of Life among the English Gentry, with Additional Observations on the Duration of Life among the Aristocracy . . . . . . . . . 37--49 F. G. P. Neison Contributions to Vital Statistics, Especially Designed to Elucidate the Rate of Mortality, the Laws of Sickness, and the Influences of Trade and Locality on Health, Derived from an Extensive Collection of Original Data, Supplied by Friendly Societies, and Proving their too Frequent Instability . . . . . . . . 50--76 M. Hoffman and C. R. Weld On the Number and Increase of the Jews in the Prussian States, and their Distribution in the Provinces and Towns 77--85 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--85 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--96
Anonymous Twelfth Annual Report of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . 97--100 J. Butler Williams On the Principles of Railway Management, and on the Profitable Increase in the Traffic Produced by Great Reductions in the Charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--132 Dr. Currie Facts and Calculations Respecting the Population and Territory of the United States of America . . . . . . . . . . . 133--151 Benjamin Phillips The Prevalence and Alleged Increase of Scrofula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152--157 Lieut.-Colonel Sykes Mortality of the Madras Army; from Official Records . . . . . . . . . . . . 157--157 William Farr The Influence of Scarcities and of the High Prices of Wheat on the Mortality of the People of England . . . . . . . . . 158--174 Richard Valpy The Rise of Commercial Intercourse between Russia and China . . . . . . . . 175--176 Anonymous Criminal Tables for the Year 1845. --- England and Wales . . . . . . . . . . . 177--183 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--184 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184--192
James Heywood Oxford University Statistics . . . . . . 193--203 Joseph Fletcher A Statistical Account of the Municipal Provisions for Paving, Lighting, and Cleansing the Streets and Public Places of the Metropolis, and for Protecting them from Nuisances . . . . . . . . . . 204--222 F. G. P. Neison Statistics of Crime in England and Wales for the Years 1842, 1843, and 1844 . . . 223--276 Edward Jarvis and Thos Laycock Notice of Some Vital Statistics of the United States, in a Letter to the Hon. Horace Mann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277--279 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--280 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280--288
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 377--380 Joseph Fletcher Statistical Account of the Constitution and Operation of the Criminal Courts of the Metropolis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289--309 W. H. Sykes Statistics of the Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice in British India from 1841 to 1844, both Inclusive 310--338 Dr. Alison Report on the Medical Relief to the Parochial Poor of Scotland, under the Former Poor Law . . . . . . . . . . . . 339--345 William A. Guy On the Duration of Life in the Members of the Several Professions . . . . . . . 346--353 James Heywood Statistics of the German Universities, from a Recent Work on German University Education by Dr. Perry, of Göttingen . . 354--364 Anonymous Principal Religious Denominations in the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--365 Anonymous Proceedings of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365--365 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366--376 Anonymous Back Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--32
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii W. H. Sykes Statistics of the Government Charitable Dispensaries of India, Chiefly in the Bengal and North-Western Provinces . . . 1--37 Whitworth Russell Abstract of the ``Statistics of Crime in England and Wales, from 1839 to 1843'' 38--61 William A. Guy On the Duration of Life of Sovereigns 62--69 Richard Valpy A Review of the Mines and Mining Industry of Belgium . . . . . . . . . . 70--83 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--96
Anonymous Thirteenth Annual Report of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . 97--99 W. H. Sykes Vital Statistics of the East India Company's Armies in India, European and Native . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100--131 J. T. Danson On the Accounts of the Bank of England under the Operation of the Act 7 & 8 Vict., c. 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132--153 Bernard Hebeler Statistics of Prussia . . . . . . . . . 154--186 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187--192
Joseph Fletcher Moral and Educational Statistics of England and Wales . . . . . . . . . . . 193--233 Anonymous Education in the Mining and Manufacturing District of South Staffordshire; Being a Report to the Council of the Statistical Society of London by its Secretaries . . . . . . . 234--242 W. H. Sykes Revenue Statistics of the Agra Government, or North-Western Provinces 243--251 A. M. Tulloch On the Mortality among Her Majesty's Troops Serving in the Colonies during the Years 1844 and 1845 . . . . . . . . 252--259 John Billing Statistics of the Sanitary Condition of the Borough of Reading . . . . . . . . . 259--261 J. Whishaw A Table Showing the Revenue Receipts, Increase of Traffic, Dividends, &c., on the Following Railways for the Half-Year Ending in Dec., 1846 . . . . . . . . . . 262--266 Anonymous Pauper Lunacy and Poor's Rate Statistics 266--267 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268--288
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 377--379 W. H. Sykes Prices of the Cerealia and other Edibles in India and England Compared . . . . . 289--316 G. R. Porter The Influence of Education, Shown by Facts Recorded in the Criminal Tables for 1845 and 1846 . . . . . . . . . . . 316--344 Joseph Fletcher Statistical Account of the Markets of London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345--360 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361--376
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Anonymous Objects and Progress of the Statistical Society of London, 12, St. James's Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1--2 W. H. Sykes and F. G. P. Neison Report of a Committee of the Council of the Statistical Society of London, Consisting of Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Sykes, V.P.R.S., Dr. Guy, and F. G. P. Neison, Esq., to Investigate the State of the Inhabitants and their Dwellings in Church Lane, St. Giles's . . . . . . 1--18 Horace Mann Statement of the Mortality Prevailing in Church Lane During the Last Ten Years, with the Sickness During the Last Seven Months. Contained in a Letter Addressed to Dr. Guy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--24 T. C. Banfield The Progress of the Prussian Nation, 1805, 1831, 1842 . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--37 F. G. P. Neison Analysis of the Census of New South Wales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--54 Richard Valpy The Resources of the Irish Sea Fisheries 55--72 William Augustus Guy On the Health of Nightmen, Scavengers, and Dustmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72--81 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--96
Anonymous Fourteenth Annual Report of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . 97--100 J. T. Danson A Contribution Towards an Investigation of the Changes which have Taken Place in the Condition of the People of the United Kingdom During the Eight Years Extending from the Harvest of 1839 to the Harvest of 1847; and An Attempt to Develope the Connexion (if any), Between the Changes Observed and the Variations Occurring During the Same Period in the Prices of the Most Necessary Articles of Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--140 F. G. P. Neison Statistics of Crime in England and Wales, for the Years 1834--1844 . . . . 140--165 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166--192
Anonymous Report to the Council of the Statistical Society of London from a Committee of its Fellows Appointed to Make an Investigation into the State of the Poorer Classes in St. George's in the East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193--249 Edward Edwards A Statistical View of the Principal Public Libraries in Europe and the United States of North America . . . . . 250--281 Anonymous Report of the Registration Committee to the Council of the Statistical Society, 5th June, 1847 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282--287 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288--304
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 381--384 Earl Lovelace On the Subdivision of Real Property and its Effects Upon Agriculture and the Produce of the Soil in France, Shown by the Facts Adduced in the Recent Work of MM. Monnier and Rubichon . . . . . . . . 305--322 Wyndham Harding Facts Bearing on the Progress of the Railway System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322--343 Anonymous Railway Accidents . . . . . . . . . . . 343--343 Professor Powell Contributions to Academical Statistics 344--344 Joseph Fletcher Moral and Educational Statistics of England and Wales . . . . . . . . . . . 344--366 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367--380
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . i--iv Anonymous Front Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii--ii Anonymous Objects and Progress of the Statistical Society of London 12, St. James's Square 1--2 Colonel Sykes The Statistics of Civil Justice in Bengal, in Which the Government is a Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3--33 Edward Balfour Additional Observations on the Means of Maintaining Troops in Health . . . . . . 33--42 John P. Boileau Statistics of Mendicancy . . . . . . . . 43--48 W. H. Sykes Analysis of the Report of Surgeon F. P. Strong, of the Bengal Army, to the Bengal Government for 1847, of the Mortality in the Jails of the 24 Pergunnahs, Calcutta . . . . . . . . . . 48--59 John Crawfurd and W. H. Sykes Vital Statistics of a District in Java 60--71 E. Wyatt-Edgell Remarks on the Plan Adopted for Taking the Census in 1841, with Suggestions for its Improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . 71--77 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--96
Anonymous Fifteenth Annual Report of the Statistical Society of London . . . . . 97--102 William Farr Statistics of the Civil Service of England, with Observations on the Constitution of Funds, to Provide for Fatherless Children and Widows . . . . . 103--124 Anonymous On Funds to Provide for the Fatherless Children and Widows of Civil Officers--or of Others--From a Deduction out of Their Salaries . . . . . . . . . 125--150 Joseph Fletcher Moral and Educational Statistics of England and Wales . . . . . . . . . . . 151--176 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177--188
Joseph Fletcher Moral and Educational Statistics of England and Wales . . . . . . . . . . . 189--335 Anonymous Errata: Moral and Educational Statistics of England and Wales . . . . . . . . . . 335--335 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336--348
Anonymous Volume Information . . . . . . . . . . . 449--452 J. T. Danson Some Particulars of the Commercial Progress of the Colonial Dependencies of the United Kingdom, during the Twenty Years, 1827--46 . . . . . . . . . . . . 349--439 Anonymous Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439--448