========+========+========+========+========+====== M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. --------+--------+--------+--------+--------+------ 33 | 26 | 28 | 19 | 27 | 18 W 40 | 18 | 29 | 20 | W 39 | 19 23 | 26 | 23 | 21 | 27 | 31 23 | 23 | 26 | 21 | 23 | 14 25 | 21 | 22 | 18 | 33 | 24 29 | W 24 | 25 | 17 | 25 | 18 31 | 19 | 28 | W 35 | 25 | 18 28 | 25 | 24 | 18 | 21 | 19 26 | 17 | 26 | 19 | 24 | 20 23 | 15 | 32 | 26 | 26 | 19 23 | 18 | 26 | 18 | W 46 | W 39 23 | 19 | 27 | 18 | 23 | 25 30 | 24 | 25 | 21 | 22 | 20 W 38 | 17 | 23 | 16 | 32 | 17 21 | 17 | 27 | 19 | 21 | 16 26 | 21 | 40 | 16 | 21 | W 30 W 53 | W 43 | 28 | 15 | W 40 | 17 28 | 20 | 31 | 24 | 25 | 24 29 | 21 | 27 | 25 | 30 | 20 W 43 | W 36 | 29 | 17 | W 43 | 23 20 | 16 | 24 | W 30 | 22 | 18 22 | 18 | W 42 | W 34 | | ========+========+========+========+========+======= Analysing these figures, with the omission of remarriages, we obtain the following results:-- (a) Railway. Bridegroom. Bride. Average age 25-26 18-19 Mean above average 28-29 19-20 Mean below average 23-24 16-17 Range of age 40-20 28-14 (b) Madras City. Bridegroom. Bride. Average age 26-27 19-20 Mean above average 28-29 21-22 Mean below average 23-24 17-18 Range of age 40-20 31-14 From the analysis of a hundred male cases in Madras, in which enquiries were made with reference to the married state, in individuals ranging in age from 21 to 50, with an average age of 33, I learn that 74 were married; that 141 male and 130 female children had been born to them; and that 26, whose average age was 25, were unmarried. The limits of age of the men at the time of marriage were 32 and 16; of their wives 25 and 13. The greatest number of children born to a single pair was 10. In only three cases, out of the seventy-four, was there no issue. In fifty cases, which were examined, of married men, with an average age of 34, 207 children had been born, of whom 91 had died, for the most part in early life, from 'fever' and other causes.