+------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+ | Periods of Years.| Average Annual Number.|Proportion of each Sex.| +------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+ | | Male. Female. Total. | Male. Female. | | | | | | 1812 to 1816 | 18.2 7.6 25.8 | 70 30 | | 1817 —— 1821 | 15.0 5.2 20.2 | 74 26 | | 1822 —— 1826 | 16.4 7.4 23.8 | 69 31 | | 1827 —— 1831 | 22.0 7.8 29.8 | 78 22 | | 1832 —— 1836 | 24.0 7.9 31.9 | 76 24 | | +-----------------------+-----------------------+ | Average of Total | 19.1 7.1 26.3 | 73 27 | +------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+ No. 3. _A Statement of the Population of the City and Liberty of Westminster, according to each census, and the proportion which the number of Suicides in the Quinquennial Period immediately following each census bore to the population._ +--------+-----------+-------------------------------+------------------+ | | | | Proportion | |Dates of|Population.| Suicides. | of Suicides | |Census. | | |to the Population.| | | | | One in | +--------+--------------------------+----------------+------------------+ | | | Quinquennial | Average | | | | | Periods. | Annual Number. | | | | | | | | | 1811 | 160,801 | 1812 to 1816 | 25.8 | 6,232 | | 1821 | 181,444 | 1822 -- 1826 | 23.8 | 7,623 | | 1831 | 201,604 | 1832 -- 1836 | 31.6 | 6,379 | | +-----------+--------------+----------------+------------------+ |Average | 181,283 | .. | 27.06 | 6,744 | +--------+-----------+--------------+----------------+------------------+ “It must, however, be taken into consideration that suicides committed in Westminster may not belong to the population of the district, for that the proximity of the river, and other causes existing in Westminster, may attract persons residing in other parts of the town. Hence an increase or decrease of facilities for committing suicide in the surrounding districts, such as the formation of a canal, &c., will naturally affect the number of such deaths in Westminster.”[77]