Statistics and Sociology

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Macmillan, 1896 - 399 стор.
 

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Сторінка 189 - ... from one to four rooms and windows ; in the second, what might be considered a good farm house, having from five to nine rooms and windows ; and in the first class all houses of a better description than the preceding.
Сторінка 129 - ... they die is scarcely of less account; for it is the complement of the primary question teaching men how to live a longer, healthier and happier life.
Сторінка 100 - ... 30,000 per annum, in 1846-47 it sank to 28,331, and in 1853-54 it sank to 26,939. This was undoubtedly due to the scarcity of food. So marked was this influence in the early part of this century, that it became a commonplace of statistics that the number of marriages varied inversely with the price of corn. In Germany this tendency of the number of marriages to decrease when the price of rye was high and to increase when the price was low was observable until about 1860. Since that time Germany...
Сторінка 178 - ... up to the 67th year. After that date the survivors at the end of each subsequent year are more numerous by the old than by the new table. This points to the fact that the survivors at the end of the 45th year are so much more numerous than they were under the rate of mortality prevailing in 1838-54, that they can support the higher mortality of after years for a considerable period and yet retain their numerical superiority.
Сторінка 176 - It would be absurd, for instance, to draw any inferences from a comparison of the mean ages at death of bishops and curates, as men do not usually become bishops till they have passed the middle period of life.
Сторінка 116 - Dissolution of Marriage. Marriage is dissolved either by the death of one of the parties, or by divorce. The former, of course, is the more frequent, and the death of the husband is more frequently the occasion than that of the wife, because husbands are, as a rule, older than their wives. Out of 100 marriages dissolved by death there 1 Census of Massachusetts, 1885, p.
Сторінка 221 - This percentage of increase does not indicate an increase in the proportion of insane persons to population, but rather a great increase in the amount of asylum accommodation provided, and a willingness on the part of the public to make full use of all the facilities thus provided.1 The total number of insane per million of population was 1697 in 1890, and 1833 in 1880.

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