[366] Craigie ibid. April, 1837.

[367] Christison, Monthly Journ. Med. Sc. X. 1850, p. 262.

[368] Kilgour, u. s.

[369] Cowan, Journ. Statist. Soc. III. 1841.

[370] Arrott, u. s.

[371] Craigie, u. s.

[372] Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. July, 1838.

[373] Principles and Practice of Physic, 3rd ed. 1848, II. 742, 732.

[374] First Report of the Registrar-General, London, 1839.

[375] The district registrars had hardly organised their work in the first two or three years of registration. Some gave much more complete returns than others. There was a reluctance to register births, and the marriages were not all registered. But the totals of deaths came out very nearly as the actuaries had expected.