[57] Barrow, Travels in China, p. 113; De Pauw, Philosoph. Dissert; Medhurst, China, &c., p. 45; Smith, Exploratory Visit, &c., i. p. 53.
[58] Golownin, Memoirs of a Captivity, iii. p. 222.
[59] Moor, Hindoo Infanticide, p. 63; Buchanan, Christian Researches in Asia, p. 49; Ward, View of the History, &c., of the Hindoos, p. 393.
[60] For a long list of authorities on these points, see Beck, ii. p. 389, et seq.
[61] Belgium.
[62] Local exceptions to this general rule will of course be found to exist, as is always the case with laws based on mere statistics, especially, as here, where reports to the registry are liable, for evident reasons, to be withheld. Thus it appears from Dr. Jewell’s collections (this Journal, March, 1857, p. 277,) that the proportion of still-births in Philadelphia was, in 1856, only 1 in 913 to the total population, and 1 in 20.1 to the general mortality, against which evidence must be placed that which we subsequently furnish from Prof. Hodge.
[63] MSS. Letter from City Registrar, March 26, 1857.
[64] Chickering, Comparative View of the Population of Boston, 1850. City Document, No. 60, p. 44.
[65] Twelfth Registration Report to the Legislature of Massachusetts, 1853, p. 116. The truth of this statement has been corroborated by Dr. Curtis, in his Report on the Census of Boston in 1855. City Document, 1856, p. 22. Also, Fifteenth State Registration Report, 1856, p. 179.
[66] “Had the rate of the annual increase of the numbers living under the age of five (3.13 per cent.) resulted entirely from the increase of births in a permanent population, the number of births of 1855 (in the districts where the ratio of the registered deaths to the population was greater than one to sixty-three, 166 of the 331 towns) would have been 24,457, instead of 23,481, the number registered. On the other hand, had the increase resulted wholly from migration, (the annual number of births in the permanent population being constant,) the number of births would have been only 22,956. The number of births registered is somewhat nearer the latter than the former of these two values.