=======+=====================+================ 1847 | 4537 | 29.01 1848 | 3020 | 16.65 1849 | 2895 | 15.37 1850 | 3174 | 14.32 1851 | 3126 | 14.48 1852 | 3327 | 17.23 1853 | 3519 | 22.39 1854 | 3761 | 28.82 1855 | 3133 | 29.32 1856 | 2766 | 30.75 1857 | 2689 | 24.37 1858 | 2315 | 16.75 1859 | 2019 | 16.74 1861 | 2146 | 24.55 1862 | 2144 | 23.24 1863 | 1941 | 19.78 1864 | 1744 | 17.58 =======+=====================+================ Belgium. =======+========+============+================ Years. |Price of| General |Offenses against | Wheat. |Criminality.| Property. -------+--------+------------+---------------- 1841 | 20.02 | 444 | 332 1842 | 22.17 | 468 | 361 1843 | 19.41 | 434 | 346 1844 | 17.75 | 455 | 336 1845 | 20.06 | 387 | 275 1846 | 24.53 | 616 | 498 1847 | 25.20 | 579 | 496 1848 | 17.37 | 529 | 427 1849 | 17.15 | 451 | 338 1850 | 16.15 | 270 | 168 1851 | 16.71 | 247 | 132 1852 | 20.16 | 290 | 140 1853 | 25.13 | 264 | 191 1854 | 31.48 | 336 | 238 1855 | 32.92 | 299 | 212 1856 | 30.73 | 332 | 268 1857 | 22.96 | 309 | 197 1858 | 23.55 | 278 | 167 1859 | 24.00 | 314 | 187 1860 | 31.15 | 254 | 161 =======+========+============+================ It is to be noted here that in the years 1850–1860 the penal law was changed. The correlation is not constant but appears in many cases. The years of the crisis, 1846–1847, are especially interesting. =======+============= Years. | Infanticide. -------+------------- 1845 | 5 1846 | 17 1852 | 7 1853 | 13 1854 | 12 1855 | 14 =======+============== England. =======+===============+=================== Years. |Price of Wheat.| Number of | |Criminal Offenders. -------+---------------+------------------- 1816 | 78.6 | 9,091 1817 | 96.11 | 13,932 1846 | 54.8 | 20,072 1847 | 69.9 | 22,451 1852 | 40.9 | 24,443 1853 | 53.3 | 27,187 1854 | 72.5 | 27,760 1855 | 74.8 | 31,309 1856 | 69.2 | 29,591 1857 | 56.4 | 26,542 1858 | 44.2 | 24,303 =======+===============+===================