Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1821-02-27
From a London Paper of Nov. 81.
STATISTICS.

capable of bearing arms, en- mGsse, from
1910 90 years OF age, is 2,744,847; OF
about fonr in every seventeen males.
The total number OF Inhabited houses
10 England in 1901, was l,474,74O. II
1870, there were i,3l9,2l6. In 1859
the surveyors of the house and window
duties returned 8s6,4l2; and ia 1881
l,o05,8l0.
In 1901 the proportion Of persons 10 a
house 10 England were five & two-thirds ;
in Wales, five; 10 England and Wales,
five and three fifths in Scotland five
and two fifths; and 10 Great Britain, five
and fve-ninths.
The total of the male population Of
Great Britain, in 1901, was $3.50, 292,
and of females 5,492,354, which is the
proportion 100 females to SO males.
There are in Great Britain six millions
of males, and in Ireland three million oi
whom 10 the year 1912, 100000 were in
arms, that is 10 the proportion OF one to
eleven.
In Great Britain there die every year
about $4,000; every month, about 25,-
SOP; every week, 1903; every day;
Ola aud every hour about 40.
The proportion Of deaths OF women TO
that Of men, is SO to 81
There are about 90, 900 marriages year
ly; and of sixty-three marriages, three
only are observed TO be without offspring.
10 country places there are on an av-
5000 co,,, rb.tIrau horn of aarh mo m.
riage. In cities and large towns the pro-
portion is seven to every two marriages.
The married women are, to all the fe-
male inhabitants Of country, as one TO
three, and the married men to all the males
as three to five.
The number of widows is to that Of
widowers as three to one; but that Of
widows who remarry 10 that Of widowers
as four TO five.
The number of old persons who die
during the cold weather, is to those who
die during the warm season, as seven TO
four.
Half of all that are born, die before
they attain II years.
The number Of twins is TO that Of single
births, as one TO sixty-fve.
The proportion Of males boru to that Of
females, is as twenty.six TO twenty-five.
10 the sea ports of Great Britain there
are 1872 females to loo males; and in the
manufacturing towns, ll3 females to 100
males.
Taking the whole population of the
metropolis, according to the last euume-
ration, l,O99,lO the proportion Of males
to females 100 to 1913.
The small pox, in the natural way,
usually carries off eight out Of every hun
dred. By innoculation, one dies out OF
three hundred: but according TO DR..
Wilson, one 10 two hundred and fifty, dies
of innocnlated small pox.
During the first thirty years Of the 18th
century, the number of deaths in London
from small pox, was "a out of every 1000.
To the last thirty years Of the same
century, the deaths from the same cause
were about one tenth Of the whole NOR
tality, or ninety-fve out of every thou
sand.
Innoculation for the small pox has,
therefore, actually multiplied the disease
which it was intended TO ameliorate, il
the proportion of 5 to a.
1t is estimated that Of the number o.
persons who are blind, one in lose their
sight by the small pox.
Out of more than 100000 cases which
had fallen under the observation of ar
eminent physician, he never met with one
10 which person with red or light flax
en- hair had the small pox to confluence.
The clergy Of the Church of England
including their families, form, about one
eightieth part Of the population of Eng
land.
A prodigious Potatoe.--There were
raised, at Galloway house, near Wigtown
the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl o
Galloway, 90 Wednesday, the 18th No
vember, eight bushels Cor eight fifty-siz
pounds) OF potatoes, being the product
Of one potatoe, which was raised last sea
son 10 the field Of Egerness, near Carries
town, and preserved by Mr.. Kennedy
gardener to Lord Galloway. The mother
potatoe, which was cut into many sets
weighed 8 lbs. or. and many OF ths
offspring this year have certainly dout
Justice to such an ancestor, one weighing
81 lbs. another a lbs. third 81 lbs. ans
many 3 lbs. The sets were planted il
the open garden 10 two rows, and received
no more attention from Mr.. Kennedy thar
any other plant Of the same species, bein!
only once covered aud laid up.-Londof
paper. S
A filthy wretch, 10 red jacket, wh'
frequents Merrion-square, Dublin, OBJ
serving az elderly Lady alone, imploret
charity ia the name Of all the Saints il