305 R

JOURNAL

OF THE

STATISTICAL SOCIETY

OF

LONDON.

VOL. VI.

LONDON:

JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, 445, WEST STRAND.

1843.

NOTICE.

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

LONDON: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS, 14, Charing Cross.

CONTENTS.

AN Examination of some Facts obtained at the recent Enumeration of the

Inhabitants of Great Britain, in continuation of a Paper read before the

Statistical Society of London, on the 20th December, 1841. By G. R.

Porter, Esq., F.R.S., Treasurer of the Statistical Society of London.

On the Condition of the Working Classes in the Inner Ward of St. George's

Parish, Hanover Square. By C. R. Weld, Esq.

Report of the Education Committee of the Statistical Society of London on the

Borough of Finsbury .

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Results of some Inquiries into the Condition and Education of the Poorer

Classes in the Parish of Marylebone, in 1838. By R. W. Rawson, Esq. 44

Government Expenditure on Education in England, 1841-42. By Seymour

Tremenheere, Esq., F.S.S.

Some Observations on the Book Trade, as connected with Literature, in Eng-

land. By G. P. R. James, Esq.

48

Real Property, Population, and Pauperism in England and Wales.

History of Savings' Banks in the United Kingdom. By John Tidd Pratt,

Esq., the Barrister-at-Law appointed to certify the Rules of Savings'

Banks, &c..

73

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

held at Manchester, June, 1842.

Proceedings of the Statistical Society

Miscellaneous

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

Session, 1842-3

Statistics of Civil and Criminal Justice in British India, chiefly from the year

1836 to 1840 inclusive. By Lieut.-Col. W. H. Sykes, F.R.S.

Agricultural and Educational Statistics of several Parishes in the County of

Middlesex. By Henry Tremenheere, Esq., Barrister-at-Law

Contributions to the Agricultural Statistics of the Eastern Counties. By

Joseph Fletcher, Esq., Hon. Sec.

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An Attempt to determine the Influence of the Seasons and Weather on Sick-

ness and Mortality. By William Augustus Guy, M.B. Cantab. Professor

of Forensic Medicine, King's College, London, and Physician to King's

College Hospital.

Report of a Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of

Science, consisting of Lieut.-Col. W. H. Sykes, F.R.S., Lord Sandon, M.P.,

G. R. Porter, Esq., F.R.S., J. Heywood, Esq., F.R.S., Dr. W. P. Alison,

and E. Chadwick, Esq., on the Vital Statistics of Large Towns in Scotland.

Proceedings of the Statistical Society.

On the Division of Heritable Property, and its Influence on the Distribution

of Wealth. Translated from the French of M. Passy, by Sir John P.

Boileau, Bart..

Contributions to a Knowledge of the Influence of Employments upon Health.

By W. Augustus Guy, M.B. Cantab. Professor of Forensic Medicine,

King's College, and Physician to King's College Hospital, Hon. Sec.

Fifth Report and Summary of the Education Committee of the Statistical

Society of London