Annual report of the registrar-general of births, deaths, and marriages in England. v. 30-31, 1867-68, Volumes 30-31Great Britain General Registrar Office, 1869 |
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Acid ASPHYXIA Bachelors Bedfordshire Births over Deaths CAUSES NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES OF DEATH CHEMICAL INJURIES Childbirth Cholera Colonial connected with Mines COUNTIES.-BIRTHS AND DEATHS CUCKFIELD death-rate DEATHS in ENGLAND DEATHS registered Diarrhoea different Ages Diphtheria DISTRICTS DIVISION Drowning East ending the last Erysipelas Excess of Births extra-metropolitan Fall fever HEREFORDSHIRE Illegitimate Illegitimate Births Including Illegitimate Illegitimate INJURIES not connected Ischuria IV.-EASTERN June KENT Leicestershire London Manslaughter Marriage Register MARRIAGES Measles MECHANICAL INJURIES Metria MIDDLESEX MIDLAND COUNTIES Mines or Railways Monmouthshire NORTH MIDLAND number of deaths Officers ORDER Oxfordshire population proportion quarter ending Rate of Mortality Registrar Registrar-General REGISTRATION COUNTIES Riding with York Scarlatina small-pox SOUTH WESTERN Spinsters Stab Statute Acres Strychnia SUICIDE SURREY Table TENBURY TOTAL BIRTHS TOTAL DEATHS Town Typhus United Kingdom UPTON-ON-SEVERN V.-SOUTH WESTERN VI.-WEST MIDLAND VII.-NORTH VIOLENT DEATHS WALES WEST MIDLAND COUNTIES WESTERN COUNTIES Whooping-cough Widowers women Workhouse X.-NORTHERN zymotic diseases
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Page 202 - ... the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death, to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 204 - There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, 15 And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Page 202 - Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his wrongful act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such case should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him...
Page 202 - ENACTED, that every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent, and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused...
Page 215 - The very conditions which diminish the numbers killed in the battle of life diminish the numbers of wounded; and as every single death by violence implies the injury or mutilation of survivors, so nearly all the zymotic diseases leave irreparable traces in the blind, the deaf, the weak in body or brain. By removing the discovered causes of death you at the same time remove conditions which prevent the progress towards perfection of the human race.
Page 241 - practice is so easy, profitable, and safe from all possibility of being detected, as everyone " knows it is. And I know no intelligent man who doubts but the new money goes " this way. Silver and gold, like other commodities, have their ebbings and Sowings : " upon the arrival of quantities from Spain, the Mint commonly gives the best price ; " that is, coined silver for uncoined silver, weight for weight.
Page 241 - What is become of it all? no body believes it to be in the Nation, and it cannot well be all transported, the Penalties for so doing being so great. The case is plain, it not being exported, as I verily believe little of it is, the Melting-Pot devours all.
Page 215 - ... order of succession. Physiologists maintain, as we have seen, that each unit of the body, though to a large extent dependent on others, is likewise to a certain extent independent or autonomous, and has the power of increasing by self-division. I go one step further, and assume that each unit casts off free gemmules which are dispersed throughout the system, and are capable under proper conditions of being developed into similar units.
Page 215 - ... the whole mass of blood, weighing many pounds, is infected, and every small particle of that blood contains enough poison to give, within less than forty-eight hours, the disease to another animal'.
Page xxx - The insufficiency of the national education is the more to be regretted, as the means of education exist, and the funds left for educational purposes, if properly applied, in the charities and public institutions, would, with some assistance from Parliament, supply the children of the poor with the sound knowledge which the scanty earnings of the parents do not enable them to purchase.