The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1821-02-12
LONDON, NOV. "a.
STATISTICS.

STATISTICS.
In Great Britain, the number Of men capa
BE Of beating aims, en- HGsse. from fifteen L
sixty years of age, is 2,744, s47, or about four
N every seventeen males.
The total number of inhabited house 10 Eng.
land, in 1901, was l,474, 40. la 1890, there
were l.3l9,2l5 III 1859, the surveyors q
the house and window duties returned $780,
- and ia 1871, l,005,8l0
10 1901. The proportion Of persons 10 house
% England were ive and two thirds !; IN Wales,
iise 10 England and Wales, five and three
hiihs IN Scotland, five aud two hfihs and
10 Great Britain, FIVE and hee-ninhs.
The total Of The male population OF Great
Britain, IN 1901, was $3.50, 1872, and Of fe-
males. 5, 492, 354, which is in the proportion
VI 100 females TO 90 males.
There are in Great Britain six millions o.
males, and in Ireland, three millions of whom
in the year 1879, 807 600 were in arms, thai
IS in tie proportion of one 10 eleven.
In Great Britain there die every year about
$50, 200 every month, about 25 $50 every
week, 6,393; every day, GA aud every
hour, about 40.
The proportion Of deaths OF women 10 that
Of men is fifty 10 fifty four.
There are about 10000 marriages yearly
and Of sxty-tlIee marriages, three only are
observed 10 be without offspring.
In country places there are, on an average
four children born Of each marriage. In cite:
and large towns the proportion is seven 10 ev.
cry two marriages.
The married women are, TO all the female
inhabitants OF country, as one to three, and
the married men TO all the males, as three ;c
Eve.
The number ofwidows is 10 that of widow.
ers as three to one but that of widows who
remarry to that of widowers as four TO five.
The number of old persons who die during
The cold weather, is, to those whe die during
the warm season, as seven to four
Half of all that are born die before the,
attain seventeen years.
The number of twins is to that of singl,
births, as one TO sixty FIVE.
The proportion of males born, to that Of fe
males, is as twenty SIX TO twenty five
la the sea ports of Great Britain there ar,
l32 females to 100 males and, in The manu-
featuring towns rs females TO 100 males.
Taking the who population of the metrop-
oils according 10 the last enumeration, .O99
IC4, the proportion Of males to females is a
100 to 1913.
The clergy of the Church Of England, in
GLIDING their families, form about one eight
9Th part of the population of England
In The county Of Somerset, the number O
males 10 that Of females, is in the proportion
offs to 100; and in the four western coun
ties Of England, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset
and Dorset, the number Of males is 10 that o,
females as SO to 100
II appears from tables, from l772 10 1887.
that nearly one in eight Of all the cases Of H.
sanity, are imputed to religious fanatioism.
According TO the population returns ofI8II
taking the integral number Of twenty, there
were in England, seven employed in agricul-
ture, nine IN trade, manufactures, and handi
crafts, snd TOUR who lived either on rentals of
lands or houses, or on the interest arising from
accumulation OF money. In Wales, the far
mers are 10 the manufactures as two TO one, or
The three above mentioned classes in the pro
portion of eight, four, and two.
nation, without being exhausted can an
nualy afford to employ the one hundredth
part Of IFS population il he profession OF arms.
The quota which England could afford, ac-
corjing to this proportion, in addition to its
military and naval establishment previous Ia
the peace of 1914 without exhaustion. would
be 10000 of which 70 600 would suffice for
he navy and 10000 for the army.