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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt:... INDEX BY TOPICS. Accidents: deaths from, 147; Ger-man insurance against, 159; suffer-ing from, 226. Acclimation: of Europeans in tropical regions, 132. Acquitted: proportion of accused, 286. Advent: marriages in, 97. Age: Chapter IV.; classification by, 37; statistics of, 46; importance of distinction, 38; and sex, 43; in cit-ies, 44, 46; population by, 45, 46; productive and unproductive, 47; military, 47; voting, 48; school, 49; of majority, 50; child-bearing, 50; marriageable, 50; average age of the living, 50; and conjugal condition, 52; trustworthiness of statistics of, 69,60; of mothers of still-born, 79; at marriage, 103; of bridegrooms and brides, 105,107; probability of mar-riage at different ages, 109; women of child-bearing age, number of children to, 114; at different ages, 114; deaths according to, 143; in-fantile mortality, 144; deaths ac-cording to conjugal condition and, 146; accidental deaths, 147; effect of, on birth-rate, 85; on death rate, 150; sickness and, 157, 158; disease and, 162; expectation of life at different ages, 169; average age of the dying, 175; average age of the living, 176; illiteracy by, 196; of the blind, 215; of deaf-mutes, 218; of insane and idiotic, 222; of paupers, 230; of suicides, 247, 248; and criminality, 278; immigrants from different countries according to, 323; of emigrants from Ireland, 320. Agriculture: proportion of population in, 199, 200; criminals engaged in, 275; agrarian crime in Ireland, 267; influence on proportion of sexes, 57; on births, 75 n.; illegitimate births, 84; accidents in, 159. Aliens: in United States, 48; who do not speak English, 308. Altitude: distribution of population in accordance with, 351; ditto of coloured population, 299. Area in square miles: of...