[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Journal, 15 Jan 1814 - Curious Statistics

[Petra Mitchinson]

Saturday 15 Jan 1814   (p. 4, col. 5)

 

CURIOUS STATISTICAL ACCOUNTS. 

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In great Britain the number of men capable of rising in arms en masse, from 15 to 60 years of age, is 2,744,847, or about 4 in every
17 males. 

 

There are about 90,000 marriages yearly, and of 63 marriages, 3 only are observed to be without offspring. 

 

In Great Britain there die every year about 332,700; every month about 25,592; every week 6,398; every day 914; and every hour about
40. 

 

Among 115 deaths, there may be reckoned one woman in childbed; but only one in 400 dies in labour. 

 

The proportion of the deaths of women to that of men is 50 to 54. 

 

Married women live longer than those who are not married. 

 

In country places there are on an average 4 children born of each marriage; in cities and large towns the proportion is 7 to every
two marriages. 

 

The married women are to all the female inhabitants of a country, as 1 to 3; and the married men to all the males, as 3 to 5. 

 

The number of widows is to that of widowers as 3 to 1; but that of widows who re-marry to that of widowers, as 4 to 5. 

 

The number of old persons, who die during the cold weather, is to those who die during the warm season, as 7 to 4. 

 

Half of all that are born die before they attain 17 years. 

 

The number of twins is to that of single births, as 1 to 65. 

 

According to the observations of BOERHAAVE, the healthiest children are born in January, February, and March. 

 

>From calculations founded on the Bills of Mortality, only 1 out of 3,125 reaches 100 years. 

 

The greatest number of births is in February and March. 

 

The small pox, in the natural way, usually carries off 8 out of every hundred; by innoculation, 1 dies out of 300, or, according to
Dr. WILLAN, 1 in 250. 

 

The proportion of males born to that of females is as 26 to 25. 

 

In the sea-ports of Great Britain there are 132 females to 100 males, and in the manufacturing towns 113 females to 100 males. 

 

The total of the male population of Great Britain, in 1801, was 5,450,292, and of females 5,592,354 [5,492,354 in other papers],
which is in the proportion of 100 females to 99 males. 

 

Taking the whole population of the metropolis, according to the recent enumeration, at 1,099,104, the proportion of males to females
is as 100 to 128. 

 

During the first thirty years of the eighteenth century the number of deaths in London, from small-pox, was 74 out of 1,000. 

 

In the last 30 years of the same, the deaths from the same cause were about one-tenth of the whole mortality or 95 out of 1,000. 

 

Innoculation for small-pox has therefore actually multiplied the disease, which it was intended to ameliorate, in the proportion of
5 to 4. 

 

Out of more than 40,000 cases which had fallen under the observation of an eminent physician, he never met with one in which a
person with red or light flaxen hair had the small pox to confluence. 

 

Since vaccination has been fully established, no death has in any instance occurred from small pox after a proper inoculation by the
cow pock. 

 

In most of the cases in which vaccination has failed, the small pox has been remarkably mild, and of short duration. 

 

It does not appear that failures in the vaccine-pock, including mistakes, negligencies, and mis-statements, have occurred more than
as 1 to 800. 

 

According to the most unfavourable estimate that has been drawn, only 1 in 3,000 vaccinated dies. 

 

Of all the inhabitants of a country, 25 in 100 live in cities and large towns, and the remaining 75 in villages. 

 

There are in Great Britain six millions of males, and in Ireland two millions, of whom 807,000 were in 1812 in arms, that is, in the
proportion of 1 to 10. 

 

It appears, from tables, from 1772 to 1787, that nearly one in eight, of all cases of insanity, are imputable to religious
fanaticism. 

 

 

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