[27] Register of the Morgue.
[28] De Jonnés, loc. cit., p. 193.
[29] Report of City Inspector of New York for 1849.
[30] City Inspector’s Report for 1856.
[31] Ibid.
[32] Compiled from Quetelet, loc. cit., p. 152.
[33] Compiled from City Inspector’s Report for 1855.
[34] Ibid. for 1856.
[35] Clay, Obstetric Cyclopedia, p. 21.
[36] Separate records of the premature births in New York were not made before this period. They were not rendered in 1842; I have therefore omitted in the calculation the still-births of the same year. For a series of the official reports, I am indebted to the present City Inspector, Mr. Geo. W. Morton.