JOURNAL

OF THE

STATISTICAL SOCIETY

OF

LONDON.

VOL. VIII.

LONDON:

JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, 445, WEST STRAND.

1845.

NOTICE.

THE Council of the Statistical Society of London wish it to be understood, that, while they consider it their duty to adopt every means within their power to test the facts inserted in this Journal, they do not hold themselves responsible for their accuracy, which must rest upon the authority of the several Contributors.

LONDON: HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

CONTENTS.

Criminal Statistics and Movement of the Bond Population of Norfolk Island,

to December, 1843. By Captain Maconochie, R.N., late Superin-

tendent....

On the Population and Mortality of Calcutta. By Lieut.-Colonel W. H.

Sykes, F.R.S.

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50

Statistics of the Hospitals for the Insane, under the Bengal Presidency. By

Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Sykes, F.R.S........

58

On the Sanatory Condition of the City of York. By T. Laycock, M.D.,

Physician to the York Dispensary

63

Statistics of Old and New Malton. By William Charles Copperthwaite, F.S.S.,

Borough Bailiff of Malton

66

On the Duration of Life among the Families of the Peerage and Baronetage

of the United Kingdom. By W. A. Guy, M.B., Cantab., Fellow of the

Royal College of Physicians, Professor of Forensic Medicine in the

King's College, Physician to the King's College Hospital, Honorary

Secretary of the Statistical Society, &c............

Comparison of the Sickness, Mortality, and prevailing Diseases among Seamen

and Soldiers, as shown by the Naval and Military Statistical Reports.

By T. Graham Balfour, M.D., Assistant-Surgeon Grenadier Guards, &c.

(Communicated by Lieut.-Colonel Tullock, F.S.S., &c., &c., and read

before the Statistical Society of London 18th November, 1844)

Proceedings of the Statistical Society

Miscellaneous

Eleventh Annual Report of the Council of the Statistical Society of London.

Session 1844-45

Fourteenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science,

held at York, October, 1844

102

Statistics of the Educational Institutions of the East India Company in India.

By Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Sykes, F.R.S.

103

Historical and Statistical Account of the present System of supplying the

Metropolis with Water. By Joseph Fletcher, Esq., Barrister at Law,

Honorary Secretary....

148

Proceedings of the Statistical Society

182

Miscellaneous

182

Statistical Data for forming Troops, and maintaining them in Health in dif-

ferent Climates and Localities. By Assistant-Surgeon Edward Balfour,

Madras Army

193