Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 12Statistical Society of London, 1849 - Great Britain |
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Agricultural and Maritime Agricultural and Mining amount annual annuity Average Number British Calculated Average Celtic Centages cholera colonies compared Cornwall Counties of Least crime Criminal Commitments cwts deaths Decrease per Cent Disease DISTRICTS AND COUNTIES Districts of England Domestic Manufactures Dorset Durham East Riding Eastern Agricultural Counties England and Wales excess Exports Government Hereford Imports Improvident Marriages influences Inwards Least Instructed Districts Malicious Offences Manufacturing Counties Maritime Counties Marriages Mauritius mean Metropolis Metropolitan Counties Midland Agricultural Counties Midland and Eastern Midland Mining Mining and Manufacturing Mining Counties Miscellaneous Offences mortality North Riding North Wales Northampton Northern Agricultural Northumberland Offences against Property officers period population Proportion per Cent quarter ending returns salaries Sierra Leone South Australia South Midland South Midland Agricultural South Wales Statistical struction Surrey Table Tons Total Offences Total-Least Instruction Total-Most Instruction Total-North Midland United Kingdom Van Dieman's Land West Riding Westmoreland Whitehaven widow
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Page 1 - March, 1834) for the purposes of procuring, arranging, and publishing 'Facts calculated to illustrate the condition and prospects of society.
Page 106 - The second part of the paper is devoted to a discussion of the sense organs, oy which the author's former position is strengthened.
Page 404 - Their commerce was almost confined to the exportation of wool, the great staple commodity of England, upon which, more than any other, in its raw or manufactured state, our wealth has been founded.
Page 444 - The mean amount of vapour mixed with the air would have produced water, if all had been precipitated at one time on the surface of the earth, to the 'depth of 5'5 inches.
Page 234 - The conclusion is therefore irresistible that education is not only essential to the security of modern society, but that such education should be solid, useful, and above all, Christian, in supersedence of much that is given by the weakest of the day-schools, and attempted by the most secular of the Sundayschools) Minutes 1846, vol.
Page 230 - ... were the investigation carried no further, we should be forced to conclude, that since the most criminal districts show a higher ratio of uninstructed persons among the criminals, and the less criminal districts a less proportion who are wholly destitute of the rudest elements of education, the immediate inference is, that even this small degree of instruction tends to the repression of crime.
Page 207 - ... instructed counties of the several districts. Indeed, throughout the lines which describe this class of offences in Table I., sect. iv. 2, there will be observed this same peculiar excess of commitments in the more as compared with the less instructed counties of the same districts, owing to the town influences ; while in comparing the least instructed counties of the least with the least of the most instructed districts, we find but a small balance, drawn over by the combined influences of dispersion...
Page 209 - ... are more equal and permanent, though the general condition of life is much lower, and the fluctuations in the progress of crime and its positive amount are much less. It is here, I think, that we attain to another statistical evidence of the want of a higher moral vigour to meet the exigencies of the higher industrial organization, in itself an undoubted benefit, which it has been the passion of the last half-century to develope.
Page 219 - ... 5. The great class of the more serious offences against the person and malicious offences against property, is obviously that least affected by migrations of the depraved, and affords strong testimony, by its universal excess wherever ignorance is in excess, that many of the offences against property which are in such excess in the more instructed and populous localities, are committed by delinquents bred...
Page 196 - ... or the most of the least instructed with the least of the most instructed counties ; as though we escaped, by this comparison, the influences of a superior police dealing with the congregation of larcenous offenders in the richer towns, which are are found in the most instructed counties of the most instructed districts, and are the chief resort of professional vagrancy, and of characters already damaged by petty delinquency. But what statistical ground is there, it maybe asked, for...