Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-10

FACTS ABOUT MASSACHUSETTS. Last week
we compiled some of the facts about the "Ma.
terial Condition of Massachusetts" contained
in the July number of the Christian Exam.
iner That article has been extensively con.
led, and we now proceed to make further ex
tracts. The reader is informed that we only
take the facts that appear to present matters
in striking light, and would therefore COM
mend the whole paper and Examiner itself to
public attention.
Out of 100 persons in Massachusetts % are
under 10 years Of age 20 are between 10 and
90 81 are between 20 md 80 and only 36
out of the 100 have yet seen their thirtleth
birthday. So youthful is the people that ev.
ery fifth person is little boy or girl under
10. while only one man in sixteen has seen
his sixtieth year. In the whole State there
are but 142, 453 persons over Goa little more
than half the number that are under TO-
Last year one:ft1h part of the population
went to school.
1t is estimated that the public and private
relief annually afforded the paupers and indi-
gent wlthin our borders, is about 81 900, 900,
which is tax Of only five mills on dollar
Of the yearly earnings of the people. Quite
an insignificant sum. In 1854 one man out
of each 3O2 in Massachusetts was either a
crazy man OE q AOOls LUG ldOltS SHOW LnuL
the aliens had greater ratio OF insanity than
the native population. SO per cent. of the
foreign lunatcs are paupers.
The following statement in regard to the
cost Of sickness is Of novel interest:
1t appears that 20,734 persons died in Mas
sachusetts in l856-that is, about 2 out Of
100. 1t is not extravagant to suppose that 2
persons are sick all the time for one that dies ;
thus Al, 468 persons in Massachusetts, are con-
tinually sick-that is. /, 1872 900 persons en-
dure Al 900 years Of sickness in each twelve
month. II this evil were distributed uni
formly over the community, it would give a
little more than Is days of sickness to each
man, woman, and child t-n
The taxable property of the people of Mas
sachusetts is estimated to be about $1,000
coo, 600. The writer adds:
This does not include the untaxed proper
ty, real and personal, belonging to churches,
schools academies, colleges, and literary. sci
entific, and benevolent institutions which
wonld amount to 800, 900 900 more. This
| property is more than $3.50 to each person in
the State. II is more than dollar apiece to
the human race Less than $50 years ago,
Massachusetts started with a few Puritans
and the Wilderness for outfit and now in
eight generations she has accumulated so
much property that she could give dollar to
each of the thousand million, inhabitants OF
the earth, and still have all her schools, meet
ing houses, town houses, almshouses, jails,
and literary, benevolent, and scientific institu-
lions, left as nest eggs to begin the world
anew. We have done pretty well for begin
ners. This great mass Of property ia more
uniformly distributed than in any Of the
countries Of Europe but we think less uni
sormly than in any other New England State,
with the exception Of Rhode Island.
In 1850, the entire property Of south Caro-
lima was estimated in the United States CEN
sus at $2s9, 867 ZOO. This included the value
Of the slaves. Tho city of Boston alone could
buy up all the natural property, all the lpnd
and things, in that State, and still have a bal