REVENUE.

Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ending 5th April, 1852; showing the Increase or Decreasé thereof.-(Continued from page 93.)

Consolidated Fund Operations.-The total income brought to this account in the quarter ending 5th April, 1852, was 11,201,0807. The total charge upon it was 8,107,8987., leaving a surplus of 3,093,1827.

CORN.

Average Prices of Corn per Imperial Quarter in England and Wales, during each Week of the First Quarter of 1852; together with the Average Prices for the whole Quarter. (Continued from p. 94.)

Foreign and Colonial Wheat and Wheat-Flour imported in each of the Months ending 5th January, 5th February, 5th March, and 5th April, 1852; the Quantities Entered for Home Consumption during the same Months; and the Quantities remaining in Warehouse at the close of them.-(Continued from p. 94.)

CURRENCY.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act of the 7th and 8th Victoria, c. 32, for the Weeks ending on Saturday, the 24th January, the 21st February, the 20th March, and the 17th April, 1852.-(Continued from p. 96.)

Average Aggregate Amount of Promissory Notes of Country Banks, which have been in Circulation in the United Kingdom, distinguishing the several Banks, or Classes of Banks, by which issued in each part of the Kingdom, during the months ending 24th January, 21st February, and 20th March, 1852.-(Continued from p. 96.)

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

OF THE

STATISTICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.

SEPTEMBER, 1852.

On the Rate of Mortality in the Medical Profession. By F. G. P. NEISON. [Read before the Statistical Society of London, 15th March, 1852.]

RECENTLY I have had occasion to investigate the rate of mortality among two different classes of medical men; the one class being the Officers of the Medical Department of the Royal Army, and the other, the Members of the Royal Medical Chirurgical Society. The facts relating to the former were collected from the records of the Society formed for the benefit of the Widows of the Officers of the Medical Department of Her Majesty's Army, established in the year 1816, and the facts relating to the latter class were abstracted from the books of the Royal Medical Chirurgical Society, established in the year 1805.

The investigation, so far as related to the first group of facts, was required to be conducted with the greatest care and scrutiny, as the management of large pecuniary interests depended on the results arrived at. The utmost care was, therefore, exercised in this part of the analysis. Inquirers into vital statistics had not hitherto touched the question of the mortality among the members of the medical department of the army, but there was reason to believe from their peculiar duties, and the varied climates to which so many of them are exposed, that some unusual feature would show itself in the mortality to which they are subject, and, therefore, under this conviction, it appeared absolutely necessary to determine, from the records of the Society, the rate of mortality to which its own members have been subject. After a somewhat laborious and very troublesome analysis of all the information procurable, the following exhibits the results arrived at. In the course of this analysis it was discovered that the social condition of the members had an important influence on the rate of mortality, and it was rendered necessary finally to exhibit the rate of mortality in connection with these conditions; and it will be found that the results are not only exceedingly curious but of great practical importance.

In the following table are exhibited the principal elementary facts from which to determine the rate of mortality among the members of the Society, who entered it when unmarried, from the establishment of the Society, in 1816, until the 1st of January, 1851, excluding only such members as may have entered it in the married condition of life.

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