| | | | |Under 16, apprenticed labourers and shepherds, | | | | |about half as much as women. | | | | | |Wife, 4_l._; eldest child, 2_l._; together | | | | | |6_l._; (the children under 14 being employed | | | | | |at home.) | | | | | | |Such a family can subsist on their | | | | | | |aggregate earnings. Their food | | | | | | |principally consists of bread, rice, | | | | | | |greens, dried beans and peas, olives | | | | | | |and onions, and meat about once a week. | | | | | | | [Sidenote: English Statistics.] The answers to the following eight purely statistical questions may also be compared with the results respecting England and Wales, obtained by the Enumeration of 1831. 14. The proportion of annual deaths to the whole population? 15. The proportion of annual births to the whole population? 16. The proportion of annual marriages to the whole population? 17. The average number of children to a marriage? 18. Proportion of legitimate to illegitimate births? 19. The proportion of children that die before the end of their 1st year? 20. Proportion of children that die before the end of their 10th year? 21. Proportion of children that die before the end of their 18th year? The average annual proportion, since 1820, of births and deaths, to the whole population of England and Wales, is thus stated by Mr. Rickman: Deaths 1 in 49[22] Births 1 in 28[23] The average annual proportion during five years preceding 1831, of marriages to the whole population of England and Wales, is stated by Mr. Rickman to be 1 to 128[24]. The average annual proportion in England and Wales, during ten years preceding 1831, of births to marriages, to be 441 to 100[25]. The proportion in England and Wales, in the year 1830, of legitimate to illegitimate births, to be 19 to 1[26]. The proportion in England and Wales of deaths of persons under 1 year to the whole number of deaths during 18 years, ending in 1830, to be 778,803 out of 3,938,496, or 1 in 5¹⁄₁₇, or more nearly 1 in 5²⁄₃₅. The proportion of deaths under the age of 10 years to be 1,524,937 out of 3,938,496, or 1 in 2⅗, or more nearly 1 in 2²⁹⁄₅₀. The proportion of deaths under the age of 18 years to be 1,703,941 out of 3,938,496, or 1 in 2⅓, or more nearly 1 in 2⁵³⁄₁₇₀[27]. [22] Preface to Enumeration Abstract, p. 25. [23] Ib., p. 44, 25. [24] Ib., p. 34. [25] Ib., p. 45. [26] Preface to Enumeration Abstract, p. 44. [27] Ib., p. 36. The following is an Abstract of the Foreign Returns contained in this Appendix. Those marked thus (*) appear to have been derived from enumeration; the others to depend on estimation. DIGEST OF ANSWERS.