[390]. Cf. Essay, 2nd ed., pp. 308–9; 7th ed., pp. 198–9.
[391]. 2nd ed., pp. 312–13; 7th ed., p. 201. The 2nd ed. has a reference to “the late scarcities” wanting in the later edds. Registration, be it remembered, was then of baptisms and burials, not births and deaths.
[392]. See above, p. 176. Cf. on the other hand the concession, 2nd ed., p. 317; 7th ed., p. 203, middle.
[393]. Essay, 2nd ed., p. 319; 7th ed., pp. 205–6.
[394]. 7th ed., p. 188.
[395]. Rickman himself allowed their defectiveness. See Essay, 2nd ed., p. 304; 7th ed., p. 196. Cf. above, p. 179.
[396]. 2nd ed., p. 302; 7th ed., p. 194. By the Registrar-General’s Report for 1882 it was as 1 in 64½ in that year.
[397]. 2nd ed., p. 303; 7th ed., p. 195.
[398]. 7th ed., p. 205.
[399]. 2nd ed., pp. 213–14; 7th ed., p. 202.