Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 21Charles Knight, 1858 - Statistics |
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Page 153 - Hereditaments rated thereunto; that is to say, of the Rent at which the same might reasonably be expected to let from year to year, free of all usual Tenant's Rates and Taxes, and Tithe Commutation Rent-charge, if any, and deducting therefrom the probable average annual cost of the repairs, insurance, and other expenses, if any, necessary to maintain them in a state to command such Rent...
Page 29 - The proposal to select candidates for the civil service of government by a competitive examination appears to me to be one of those great public improvements, the adoption of which would form an era in history.
Page 67 - Within the shores of these islands the twenty-eight million of people dwell who have not only supplied her armies, and set her fleets in motion, but have manufactured innumerable products, and are employed in the investigation of scientific truths, and the creation of works of inestimable value to the human race. These people do not live out half their days...
Page 66 - ... living. But it may be said that this standard cannot fairly be applied to determine the excessive mortality of large towns, which can never become so healthy as the country. How healthy towns may become we do not know. It is only proved that the population of parts of many towns experiences a mortality little above the natural standard; and that the prevalent diseases are referable to causes which evidently from their nature admit of removal.
Page 192 - India consist of the rent of land. So far as this resource extends in any country, the public necessities of the country may be said to be provided for, at no expense to the people at large. Where the original right of the State to the land of the country has been reserved, and its natural, but no more than its natural, rents made available to meet the public expenditure, the people may be said to be so far untaxed; because the Government only takes from them as a tax, what they would otherwise have...
Page 170 - The disease once generated wanders abroad, and destroys life under circumstances quite different from those in which it was born ; but impurity is always its natural ally. The Scotch threw these matters into the streets, and justly incurred the censure of the fastidious. In London, and even in the country mansions of England, retreats still exist which may rival the French magazines of impurity ; but it has of recent years been the practice to throw the guano compounds of London, with water, into...
Page 66 - Any deaths in a people exceeding 17 in 1,000 annually are unnatural deaths. If the people were shot, drowned, burnt, poisoned by strychnine, their deaths would not be more unnatural than the deaths wrought clandestinely by disease in excess of the quota of natural death ; that is, in excess of seventeen deaths in 1,000 living.
Page 168 - Report for the latter year (1858), we find the following language:— " A disease, which is not new, but has been described afresh in France, has been fatal in several districts. It has been called ' throat disease,
Page 375 - that the poor of that city were daily employed in spinning, dyeing, carding, weaving, &c., for the making of coverlets, and that the same have not been made in the same county till of late; that this manufacture has spread into other parts of the country, and was thereby debased and discredited ; and therefore it is enacted that none shall make coverlets but the people of York.
Page 214 - The estimate of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Home Treasury of the East India Company from 1st May of the present year (1858) to 30th April, 1859, sets forth, " Dividends to proprietors of East "India Stock," 630,0002.; "Interest on the Home Bond Debt," 150,0002.; and finally, "Interest on Money borrowed,