The groundwork of eugenics . s of the English system of censusand registration returns is the absence of any record of civil conditionin the male death registration. The Registrar-General informs me thatthe record of civil condition in the case of female deaths is worthless,and that no useful return can be made from it. In the Argentine I findthat 60 percent, die unmarried. In the returns for 1861 and 1862 forScotland, 39,318 females died unmarried out of 65,467 deaths, againalmost exactly 60 per cent. Working on the last United States CensusI find that 51 per cent, of the population died unma
The groundwork of eugenics . s of the English system of censusand registration returns is the absence of any record of civil conditionin the male death registration. The Registrar-General informs me thatthe record of civil condition in the case of female deaths is worthless,and that no useful return can be made from it. In the Argentine I findthat 60 percent, die unmarried. In the returns for 1861 and 1862 forScotland, 39,318 females died unmarried out of 65,467 deaths, againalmost exactly 60 per cent. Working on the last United States CensusI find that 51 per cent, of the population died unmarried, and on thelast two English Censuses and the Annual Reports that 48 per cent,died unmarried. This indirect method of reaching the result is, how-ever, not very satisfactory. We may, I think, conclude in roundnumbers that 40 per cent, of the population dies before it reachestwenty-one (see Figs. 3 and 4) and that probably another 20 per cent,are never married. THE GROUNDWORK OF EUGENICS CURVE OF FERTILITY IM Fig. 5 CURVES OF FERTItlTY INNEW SOUTH WALES
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