| Dimensions. | Houses. |
+------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+----------+
| | | Number | Number | Number | Total | Total | Increase |
|Square| Statute | of | of | of | Number | Number | of |
COUNTIES. |Miles.| Acres. |Inhabited|Uninhabited| Houses | of | of | Houses |
| | | Houses. | Houses. |Building.| Houses, | Houses, |per cent.,|
| | | | | | 1851. | 1841. | 1841-51. |
--------------+------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+----------+
Bedford | 465 | 297,632| 25,694 | 676 | 126 | 26,496| 22,877| 15.8 |
Berks | 741 | 473,920| 39,462 | 1,563 | 211 | 41,236| 39,660| 4.0 |
Bucks | 725 | 463,880| 29,217 | 1,103 | 89 | 30,409| 28,860| 5.4 |
Cambridge | 838 | 536,313| 38,773 | 1,777 | 204 | 40,754| 35,799| 13.8 |
Chester | 1014 | 649,050| 79,849 | 4,248 | 756 | 84,853| 75,103| 13.0 |
Cornwall | 1336 | 854,770| 68,214 | 4,528 | 353 | 73,095| 71,913| 1.6 |
Cumberland | 1515 | 969,490| 36,771 | 1,531 | 238 | 38,540| 37,160| 3.7 |
Derby | 1036 | 663,180| 52,482 | 2,411 | 423 | 55,316| 49,477| 1.2 |
Devon | 2557 | 1,636,450| 99,104 | 6,016 | 765 | 105,885| 102,424| 3.4 |
Dorset | 980 | 627,220| 34,771 | 1,554 | 218 | 36,543| 35,400| 3.2 |
Durham | 1062 | 679,530| 68,989 | 3,030 | 595 | 72,614| 61,940| 17.2 |
Essex | 1530 | 979,000| 68,383 | 3,353 | 364 | 72,100| 65,570| 10.0 |
Gloucester | 1235 | 790,470| 78,385 | 4,961 | 393 | 83,739| 79,953| 4.7 |
Hereford | 850 | 543,800| 20,453 | 983 | 69 | 21,505| 21,119| 1.8 |
Hertford | 626 | 400,350| 33,954 | 1,189 | 214 | 35,357| 32,687| 8.2 |
Hunts | 379 | 242,250| 12,472 | 641 | 62 | 13,175| 11,676| 12.8 |
Kent | 1519 | 972,240| 108,386 | 5,516 | 1290 | 115,192| 101,717| 13.3 |
Lancaster | 1746 | 1,117,260| 356,436 | 17,453 | 3470 | 377,359| 322,148| 17.1 |
Leicester | 799 | 511,340| 49,968 | 1,599 | 198 | 51,765| 49,470| 4.6 |
Lincoln | 2600 | 1,663,850| 79,667 | 3,394 | 579 | 83,640| 74,138| 12.8 |
Middlesex | 280 | 179,590| 242,798 | 12,213 | 3276 | 258,287| 222,443| 16.1 |
Monmouth | 507 | 324,310| 32,901 | 1,473 | 183 | 34,557| 30,099| 4.8 |
Norfolk | 2019 | 1,292,300| 91,143 | 3,312 | 449 | 94,904| 88,378| 7.4 |
Northampton | 1011 | 646,810| 43,945 | 1,478 | 238 | 45,661| 42,358| 7.8 |
Northumberland| 1821 | 1,165,430| 47,509 | 2,060 | 384 | 49,953| 55,337| 10.8[95]|
Nottingham | 822 | 525,800| 59,427 | 1,481 | 267 | 61,175| 57,611| 6.2 |
Oxford | 730 | 467,230| 34,922 | 1,323 | 105 | 36,350| 34,151| 6.4 |
Rutland | 152 | 97,500| 4,961 | 153 | 18 | 5,132| 4,899| 4.8 |
Salop | 1351 | 864,360| 48,842 | 2,184 | 112 | 51,138| 50,131| 2.0 |
Somerset | 1606 | 1,028,090| 87,776 | 5,090 | 396 | 93,252| 90,947| 2.6 |
Southampton | 1591 | 1,018,550| 74,588 | 3,471 | 617 | 78,676| 69,807| 12.7 |
Stafford | 1150 | 736,290| 120,501 | 4,526 | 962 | 125,989| 107,941| 16.7 |
Suffolk | 1436 | 918,760| 69,479 | 3,098 | 424 | 73,001| 67,050| 8.9 |
Surrey | 741 | 474,480| 109,453 | 5,717 | 1663 | 116,838| 101,121| 15.6 |
Sussex | 1419 | 907,920| 59,308 | 2,220 | 609 | 62,137| 58,506| 6·2 |
Warwick | 887 | 567,930| 98,323 | 4,609 | 977 | 103,909| 90,868| 14·4 |
Westmorland | 759 | 485,990| 11,247 | 530 | 94 | 11,871| 11,783| 0·8 |
Wilts | 1356 | 8,060| 49,061 | 2,223 | 171 | 51,455| 49,918| 3·1 |
Worcester | 718 | 9,710| 52,055 | 2,753 | 362 | 55,170| 49,371| 11·8 |
York | 5733 | 3,669,510| 358,694 | 16,469 | 3244 | 378,417| 341,147| 10·9 |
Travelling | | | | | | | | |
North Wales | 3194 | 2,044,160| 83,091 | 3,720 | 522 | 87,333| 85,847| 8·5 |
South Wales | 4231 | 2,707,840| 119,507 | 5,269 | 844 | 125,620| 115,822| 1·7 |
+------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+----------+
TOTAL FOR } | | | | | | | | |
ENGLAND AND} |57,067|36,522,615|3,280,961| 152,898 | 26,534 |3,460,393|3,144,626| 10·0 |
WALES } | | | | | | | | |
--------------+------+----------+---------+-----------+---------+---------+---------+----------+
+------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------
| Population, 1851. | Density.
+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+---------
| | | | | Increase | No. of | No. of| No. of| No. of
| | | Total | Total | of | Persons | acres | acres | Persons
| Males. | Females.|Population,|Population,|Population| to each |to each|to each| to each
| | | 1851. | 1841. |per cent.,|100 acres.|Person.| House.|Inhabited
| | | | | 1841-51. | | | | House.
+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+---------
| 62,420| 67,369| 129,789 | 112,378 | 16 | 43.5 | 2.3 | 11.2 | 5.1
| 99,227| 99,927| 199,154 | 189,227 | 5 | 41.7 | 2.4 | 11.5 | 5.0
| 70,784| 72,886| 143,670 | 138,248 | 4 | 31.3 | 3.2 | 15.2 | 4.9
| 95,505| 96,351| 191,856 | 169,638 | 13 | 35.8 | 2.8 | 13.1 | 4.9
| 206,715| 216,723| 423,438 | 368,115 | 15 | 65.2 | 1.5 | 7.6 | 5.3
| 171,979| 184,683| 356,662 | 343,265 | 4 | 41.7 | 2.4 | 11.6 | 5.2
| 96,106| 99,381| 195,487 | 177,807 | 10 | 20.0 | 5.0 | 25.1 | 5.3
| 129,379| 131,328| 260,707 | 239,791 | 9 | 40.0 | 2.5 | 11.9 | 5.0
| 271,579| 300,628| 572,207 | 534,883 | 6 | 34.5 | 2.9 | 15.4 | 5.7
| 85,816| 91,781| 177,597 | 167,689 | 6 | 28.6 | 3.5 | 17.1 | 5.1
| 206,666| 204,866| 411,532 | 325,854 | 26 | 62.5 | 1.6 | 9.3 | 5.9
| 172,161| 171,755| 343,916 | 320,605 | 7 | 34.5 | 2.9 | 13.5 | 5.0
| 198,122| 221,353| 419,475 | 395,533 | 6 | 53.0 | 1.9 | 9.4 | 5.3
| 49,694| 49,418| 99,112 | 96,515 | 3 | 18.2 | 5.5 | 25.3 | 4.8
| 86,331| 87,632| 173,963 | 162,394 | 7 | 43.5 | 2.3 | 11.3 | 5.1
| 29,984| 30,336| 60,320 | 55,565 | 9 | 25.0 | 4.0 | 18.3 | 4.8
| 308,115| 311,092| 619,207 | 540,275 | 14 | 63.6 | 1.6 | 8.4 | 5.7
|1,005,627|1,058,286| 2,063,913 | 1,696,377 | 22 | 200.0 | .5 | 2.9 | 5.8
| 115,295| 119,643| 234,938 | 220,263 | 7 | 45.4 | 2.2 | 9.9 | 4.7
| 201,027| 199,239| 400,266 | 356,226 | 12 | 23.8 | 4.2 | 19.9 | 5.0
| 885,614|1,010,096| 1,895,710 | 1,582,538 | 20 | 1059.0 | .09 | .7 | 7.9
| 92,095| 85,070| 177,165 | 150,544 | 17 | 55.5 | 1.8 | 9.3 | 5.4
| 210,360| 223,443| 433,803 | 404,971 | 7 | 33.3 | 3.0 | 13.6 | 4.8
| 106,533| 107,251| 213,784 | 198,518 | 7 | 33.3 | 3.0 | 14.1 | 4.9
| 149,158| 154,377| 303,535 | 265,636 | 13 | 25.6 | 3.9 | 23.3 | 6.3
| 144,428| 150,010| 294,438 | 270,535 | 9 | 55.5 | 1.8 | 8.6 | 5.0
| 85,449| 84,837| 170,286 | 163,216 | 4 | 37.0 | 2.7 | 12.8 | 4.9
| 12,270| 12,002| 24,272 | 23,151 | 5 | 25.0 | 4.0 | 19.0 | 4.9
| 122,022| 122,997| 245,019 | 241,685 | 1 | 28.6 | 3.5 | 16.9 | 5.0
| 216,716| 239,521| 456,237 | 448,793 | 2 | 43.5 | 2.3 | 11.0 | 5.2
| 199,834| 202,199| 402,033 | 348,298 | 13 | 38.4 | 2.6 | 12.9 | 5.3
| 320,394| 310,112| 630,506 | 528,867 | 20 | 83.3 | 1.2 | 5.8 | 5.2
| 165,267| 170,724| 335,991 | 314,467 | 7 | 37.0 | 2.7 | 12.5 | 4.8
| 325,155| 359,650| 684,805 | 586,816 | 17 | 144.0 | .7 | 4.0 | 6.3
| 166,828| 172,600| 339,428 | 302,081 | 12 | 37·0 | 2·7 | 14·6 | 5·7
| 235,263| 244,716| 479,979 | 408,814 | 18 | 83·3 | 1·2 | ·54| 4·9
| 29,064| 29,316| 58,380 | 56,609 | 3 | 12·0 | 8·3 | 40·9 | 5·2
| 118,839| 122,164| 241,003 | 242,772 | 0·7 | 27·7 | 3·6 | 16·8 | 4·9
| 126,739| 132,023| 258,762 | 230,387 | 13 | 55·5 | 1·8 | 8·5 | 5·0
| 886,845| 901,922| 1,788,767 | 1,582,977 | 13 | 48·7 | 2·5 | 9·7 | 4·9
| | | | 5,016 | | | | |
| 200,538| 203,622| 404,160 | 388,106 | 4 | 19· | 5·1 | 23·2 | 4·9
| 300,645| 306,851| 607,496 | 528,849 | 14 | 22·2 | 4·5 | 21·5 | 5·1
+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+-------
| | | | | | | | |
|8,762,588|9,160,180|17,922,768 |15,804,294 | 13 | 49·7 | 2·0 | 10·5 | 5·5
| | | | | | | | |
+---------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+-------
LIST OF COUNTIES IN THE ORDER OF THE DENSITY OF THEIR POPULATION, AS
SHOWN BY THE NUMBER OF PERSONS TO EVERY 100 ACRES.
_Counties above the Average._
Middlesex 1059·0
Lancaster 200·0
Surrey 144·0
Stafford 83·3
York, West Riding 83·3
Chester 65·2
Kent 63·6
Durham 62·5
Worcester 55·5
Warwick 83·3
Nottingham 55·5
Monmouth 55·5
Gloucester 53·0
Average for England and Wales 49·7
_Counties below the Average._
Leicester 45·4
Bedford 43·5
Hertford 43·5
Somerset 43·5
Berks 41·7
Cornwall 41·7
Derby 40·0
Southampton 38·4
Oxford 37·0
Suffolk 37·0
Sussex 37·0
Cambridge 35·8
Devon 34·5
Essex 34·5
Norfolk 33·3
Northampton 33·3
York, East Riding 33·3
Bucks 31·3
Dorset 28·6
Shropshire 28·6
Wilts 27·7
Northumberland 25·6
Huntingdon 25·0
Rutland 25·0
Lincoln 23·8
South Wales 22·2
Cumberland 20·0
North Wales 19·6
Hereford 18·2
York, North Riding 15·2
Westmorland 12·0
COMPARISON OF THE DENSITY OF THE POPULATION
IN 1841 and 1851.
---------------------------------------+-------+-------
| 1841. | 1851.
---------------------------------------+-------+-------
_Agricultural Counties._ | |
| |
Lincoln | 21·7 | 23·8
Rutland | 22·7 | 25·0
Huntingdon | 25·0 | 25·0
Cambridge | 30·3 | 35·8
Essex | 35·7 | 34·5
Sussex | 32·2 | 37·0
Hereford | 20·8 | 18·2
| |
_Agricultural and Sub-Manufacturing_ | |
_Counties._ | |
| |
Westmorland | 11·6 | 12·0
Norfolk | 32·2 | 33·3
Suffolk | 33·3 | 37·0
Hertford | 40·0 | 43·5
Bedford | 37·0 | 43·5
Buckingham | 33·3 | 31·3
Northampton | 31·2 | 33·3
Oxford | 34·4 | 37·0
Berks | 34·4 | 41·7
Hants | 47·6 | 38·4
Wilts | 30·3 | 27·7
Dorset | 27·7 | 28·6
Somerset | 41·6 | 43·5
Devon | 32·2 | 34·5
| |
_Sub-Agricultural and Sub-Manufacturing_| |
_County._ | |
| |
Gloucester | 55·5 | 26·1
| |
_Manufacturing Counties._ | |
| |
Lancaster | 166·6 | 200·0
Yorkshire | 42·6 | 48·7
Chester | 58·8 | 65·2
Nottingham | 47·6 | 55·5
Leicester | 43·0 | 45·4
Warwick | 71·4 | 83·3
Worcester | 52·6 | 55·5
| |
| |
| |
+-------------------------------------------+--------+--------
| | 1841. | 1851.
+-------------------------------------------+--------+--------
| | |
| _Mining Counties._ | |
| | |
|Durham | 47·6 | 62·5
|Cornwall | 41·6 | 41·7
| | |
| _Manufacturing and Sub-Mining Counties._ | |
| | |
|Derby | 41·6 | 40·0
|Stafford | 71·4 | 83·3
| | |
| _Agricultural and Sub-Mining Counties._ | |
| | |
|Shropshire | 28·5 | 28·6
|North Wales | 19·3 | 19·6
|South Wales | 19·0 | 22·2
| | |
|_Sub-Agricultural and Sub-Mining Counties._| |
| | |
|Northumberland | 21·2 | 25·6
|Cumberland | 18·5 | 20·0
|Monmouth | 43·0 | 55·5
| | |
| _Metropolitan County._ | |
| | |
|Middlesex | 1000·0 | 1059·0
| | |
| _Sub-Metropolitan Counties._ | |
| | |
|Surrey | 125·0 | 144·0
|Kent | 55·5 | 63·6
| | |
|-------------------------------------------+--------+--------
|
| Note.--An _Agricultural_ county has _more_ than 10 per
| cent., and a _Sub-Agricultural_ county _less_ than 10 per
| cent. of its population employed in agriculture.
|
| A _Manufacturing_ county has _more_ than 15 per cent.,
| and a _Sub-Manufacturing_ county _less_ than 15 per cent.
| of its population employed in manufacture.
|
| A _Mining_ county has _more_ than 5 per cent., and a
| _Sub-Mining_ county _less_ than 5 per cent. of its
| population employed in mining.
[Illustration: MAP SHOWING THE NUMBER OF THE CRIMINAL OFFENDERS TO
EVERY 10,000 OF THE POPULATION; OR THE INTENSITY OF THE CRIMINALITY IN
EACH COUNTY OF ENGLAND AND WALES.
⁂ The counties printed _black_ are those in which the number of
Criminals is _above_ the average.
The counties left _white_ are those in which the number of Criminals is
_below_ the average.
The average has been calculated from the returns for the last ten
years. ]
TABLE SHOWING THE CRIMINALITY OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES IN ENGLAND AND
WALES IN THE UNDERMENTIONED YEARS.
----------------+------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
| Average |
COUNTIES. | Population | Total number of Persons committed for Trial or Bailed.
| from +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1841-50. | 1841. | 1842. | 1843. | 1844. | 1845. | 1846. | 1847. | 1848. |
----------------+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
Bedford | 121,083 | 191 | 229 | 202 | 188 | 155 | 185 | 178 | 204 |
Berks | 194,763 | 306 | 333 | 328 | 287 | 260 | 250 | 335 | 360 |
Bucks | 140,959 | 287 | 277 | 313 | 280 | 286 | 283 | 315 | 310 |
Cambridge | 180,747 | 240 | 241 | 257 | 297 | 239 | 276 | 255 | 244 |
Chester | 395,919 | 943 | 1086 | 1018 | 777 | 688 | 767 | 871 | 1070 |
Cornwall | 349,991 | 295 | 282 | 301 | 269 | 272 | 280 | 341 | 272 |
Cumberland | 186,762 | 151 | 115 | 109 | 138 | 118 | 147 | 120 | 130 |
Derby | 250,249 | 277 | 322 | 322 | 279 | 186 | 277 | 214 | 264 |
Devon | 554,738 | 687 | 716 | 740 | 715 | 720 | 721 | 949 | 924 |
Dorset | 172,736 | 284 | 241 | 252 | 203 | 218 | 225 | 307 | 287 |
Durham | 368,787 | 215 | 266 | 300 | 376 | 203 | 249 | 279 | 334 |
Essex | 332,363 | 647 | 758 | 710 | 596 | 554 | 602 | 603 | 689 |
Gloucester | 407,504 | 1236 | 1252 | 1186 | 1071 | 929 | 884 | 1092 | 1042 |
Hereford | 97,813 | 245 | 259 | 238 | 230 | 226 | 158 | 212 | 270 |
Hertford | 168,178 | 319 | 338 | 265 | 271 | 244 | 243 | 291 | 348 |
Hunts | 57,942 | 62 | 68 | 68 | 79 | 88 | 81 | 89 | 104 |
Kent | 585,249 | 962 | 1155 | 977 | 911 | 831 | 815 | 889 | 1020 |
Lancaster | 1,881,261 | 3987 | 4497 | 3677 | 2893 | 2852 | 3072 | 3456 | 3778 |
Leicester | 227,621 | 466 | 492 | 509 | 481 | 328 | 358 | 335 | 346 |
Lincoln | 378,246 | 349 | 507 | 563 | 542 | 389 | 419 | 506 | 504 |
Middlesex | 1,740,814 | 3586 | 4094 | 4260 | 4027 | 4440 | 4641 | 5175 | 4856 |
Monmouth | 164,093 | 364 | 264 | 261 | 278 | 196 | 217 | 282 | 298 |
Norfolk | 419,463 | 666 | 808 | 782 | 788 | 642 | 720 | 751 | 689 |
Northampton | 206,496 | 342 | 346 | 270 | 294 | 302 | 270 | 243 | 307 |
Northumberland | 284,777 | 226 | 245 | 290 | 294 | 189 | 169 | 189 | 201 |
Nottingham | 282,584 | 329 | 374 | 353 | 348 | 267 | 286 | 343 | 364 |
Oxford | 166,751 | 323 | 334 | 328 | 296 | 309 | 228 | 299 | 296 |
Rutland | 23,711 | 14 | 48 | 39 | 23 | 28 | 26 | 41 | 52 |
Salop | 243,352 | 416 | 470 | 534 | 449 | 308 | 227 | 267 | 305 |
Somerset | 452,515 | 991 | 1148 | 967 | 1039 | 873 | 701 | 774 | 888 |
Southampton | 377,040 | 677 | 702 | 676 | 517 | 619 | 608 | 737 | 728 |
Stafford | 579,686 | 1059 | 1485 | 1175 | 885 | 717 | 851 | 1028 | 1120 |
Suffolk | 325,336 | 482 | 527 | 585 | 630 | 407 | 471 | 505 | 495 |
Surrey | 635,917 | 923 | 1017 | 867 | 941 | 942 | 958 | 1315 | 1296 |
Sussex | 320,944 | 539 | 550 | 493 | 409 | 409 | 468 | 522 | 546 |
Warwick | 444,558 | 1046 | 1003 | 1045 | 894 | 769 | 799 | 998 | 1257 |
Westmoreland | 57,494 | 33 | 39 | 44 | 24 | 46 | 74 | 33 | 47 |
Wilts | 241,887 | 506 | 548 | 464 | 432 | 379 | 436 | 502 | 465 |
Worcester | 244,574 | 566 | 609 | 679 | 603 | 563 | 535 | 620 | 681 |
York | 1,686,461 | 1895 | 2598 | 2304 | 1691 | 1417 | 1560 | 1794 | 2036 |
North Wales | 396,161 | 251 | 279 | 294 | 283 | 269 | 220 | 307 | 332 |
South Wales | 568,430 | 377 | 387 | 546 | 514 | 426 | 350 | 471 | 590 |
+------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
TOTAL FOR | | | | | | | | | |
ENGLAND | | | | | | | | | |
AND WALES |16,918,458 |27,760 |31,309 |29,591 |26,542 |24,303 |25,107 |28,833 |30,349 |
================+============+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+=======+
----------------+-----------+-----------+--------------+----------------
| | | | Number of
| | | Proportion | Criminals to
+-------+-------+ Total for | Average | to the | every 10,000 of
| 1849. | 1850. | 10 years. | per Year. | Population. | Population.
+-------+-------+-----------+-----------+--------------+----------------
| 162 | 161 | 1,855 | 185 | 1 in 654 | 15·2
| 358 | 318 | 3,135 | 313 | „ 622 | 16·0
| 287 | 242 | 2,880 | 288 | „ 489 | 20·4
| 309 | 302 | 2,660 | 266 | „ 679 | 14·7
| 861 | 900 | 8,981 | 898 | „ 440 | 22·6
| 277 | 226 | 2,815 | 281 | „ 1245 | 8·0
| 159 | 146 | 1,333 | 133 | „ 1404 | 7·1
| 245 | 255 | 2,641 | 264 | „ 947 | 10·5
| 893 | 807 | 7,872 | 787 | „ 704 | 14·1
| 326 | 190 | 2,533 | 253 | „ 682 | 14·6
| 321 | 358 | 2,901 | 290 | „ 1271 | 7·8
| 587 | 631 | 6,377 | 638 | „ 520 | 19·1
| 1063 | 920 | 10,675 | 1067 | „ 381 | 26·1
| 242 | 252 | 2,332 | 233 | „ 419 | 23·8
| 318 | 315 | 2,952 | 295 | „ 570 | 17·5
| 93 | 90 | 822 | 82 | „ 706 | 14·1
| 980 | 958 | 9,598 | 960 | „ 609 | 16·4
| 3290 | 3340 | 34,842 | 3484 | „ 539 | 18·5
| 299 | 300 | 3,914 | 391 | „ 582 | 17·1
| 529 | 528 | 4,836 | 484 | „ 781 | 12·8
| 3861 | 3732 | 42,672 | 4267 | „ 407 | 24·5
| 370 | 433 | 2,963 | 296 | „ 554 | 18·0
| 633 | 705 | 7,184 | 718 | „ 584 | 17·1
| 327 | 248 | 2,949 | 295 | „ 699 | 14·2
| 261 | 283 | 2,347 | 235 | „ 1211 | 8·2
| 341 | 325 | 3,330 | 333 | „ 848 | 11·8
| 303 | 252 | 2,968 | 297 | „ 591 | 17·8
| 35 | 27 | 333 | 33 | „ 718 | 13·9
| 347 | 307 | 3,630 | 363 | „ 670 | 14·9
| 885 | 754 | 9,020 | 902 | „ 501 | 19·9
| 751 | 686 | 6,701 | 670 | „ 562 | 17·7
| 1009 | 1053 | 10,382 | 1038 | „ 558 | 17·9
| 537 | 472 | 5,111 | 511 | „ 636 | 15·7
| 1109 | 1030 | 10,398 | 1040 | „ 611 | 16·3
| 502 | 480 | 4918 | 492 | „ 652 | 15·3
| 910 | 880 | 9601 | 960 | „ 463 | 21·6
| 57 | 70 | 467 | 47 | „ 1223 | 8·1
| 452 | 386 | 4570 | 457 | „ 529 | 18·9
| 653 | 607 | 6116 | 612 | „ 399 | 25·0
| 2022 | 1915 | 19,232 | 1923 | „ 876 | 11·4
| 338 | 316 | 2889 | 289 | „ 1370 | 7·2
| 514 | 613 | 4788 | 479 | „ 1186 | 8·4
+-------+-------+-----------+-----------+--------------+-------------
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
|27,816 |26,813 | 278,423 | 27,842 | „ 607 | 16·4
+=======+=======+===========+===========+==============+=============
LIST OF COUNTIES IN THE ORDER OF THEIR CRIMINALITY, AS SHOWN BY THE
NUMBER OF CRIMINALS TO EVERY 10,000 OF THE POPULATION.
_Counties above the Average in Crime._
Gloucester 26·1
Worcester 25·0
Middlesex 24·5
Hereford 23·8
Chester 22·6
Warwick 21·6
Bucks 20·4
Somerset 19·9
Essex 19·1
Wilts 18·9
Lancaster 18·5
Monmouth 18·0
Stafford 17·9
Oxford 17·8
Southampton 17·7
Hertford 17·5
Leicester 17·1
Norfolk 17·1
Average for all England and Wales 16·4
_Counties above the Average in Crime._
Kent 16·4
Surrey 16·3
Berks 16·0
Suffolk 15·7
Sussex 15·3
Bedford 15·2
Salop 14·9
Cambridge 14·7
Dorset 14·6
Northampton 14·2
Devon 14·1
Rutland 13·9
Lincoln 12·8
Nottingham 11·8
York 11·4
Derby 10·5
South Wales 8·4
Northumberland 8·2
Westmorland 8·1
Cornwall 8·0
Durham 7·8
North Wales 7·2
Cumberland 7·1
THE YEARS OF CRIME.
-------------------+------------+-------------+----------
| | | Number of
| Number of | | Criminals
Years. | Criminal | Population. | to every
| Offenders. | | 10,000
| | | people.
-------------------+------------+-------------+----------
1811 | 5,337 | 10,150,615 | 5·2
1812 | 6,576 | 10,332,441 | 6·3
1813 | 7,164 | 10,515,267 | 6·8
1814 | 6,390 | 10,689,093 | 5·9
1815 | 7,818 | 10,881,919 | 7·3
1816 | 9,091 | 11,064,745 | 8·2
1817 | 13,932 | 11,247,571 | 11·5
1818 | 13,567 | 11,430,397 | 11·8
1819 | 14,254 | 11,613,223 | 12·2
1820 | 13,710 | 11,796,049 | 11·6
+------------+-------------+----------
Total for 10 years | 97,839 | 109,630,320 |
+------------+-------------+
Average ditto. | 9,783 | 10,963,032 | 8·9
+------------+-------------+----------
1821 | 13,115 | 11,978,875 | 10·9
1822 | 12,241 | 12,170,706 | 10·0
1823 | 12,263 | 12,362,537 | 9·9
1824 | 13,698 | 12,554,368 | 10·9
1825 | 14,437 | 12,746,199 | 11·3
1826 | 16,164 | 12,938,030 | 12·5
1827 | 17,924 | 13,129,861 | 13·6
1828 | 16,564 | 13,321,692 | 12·4
1829 | 18,675 | 13,531,523 | 13·8
1830 | 18,107 | 13,705,354 | 13·2
+------------+-------------+----------
Total for 10 years | 153,188 | 128,421,145 |
+------------+-------------+
Average ditto | 15,318 | 12,842,114 | 11·9
+------------+-------------+----------
1831 | 19,647 | 13,897,187 | 14·1
1832 | 20,829 | 14,098,142 | 14·7
1833 | 20,072 | 14,299,097 | 14·0
1834 | 22,451 | 14,500,052 | 15·4
1835 | 20,731 | 14,701,007 | 14·1
1836 | 20,984 | 14,901,962 | 14·1
1837 | 23,612 | 15,102,917 | 15·6
1838 | 23,094 | 15,303,872 | 15·1
1839 | 24,443 | 15,504,827 | 15·7
1840 | 27,187 | 15,705,782 | 17·3
+------------+-------------+----------
Total in 10 years | 223,050 | 148,114,825 |
+------------+-------------+
Average ditto | 22,305 | 14,811,482 | 15·0
+------------+-------------+----------
1841 | 27,750 | 15,914,148 | 17·4
1842 | 31,309 | 16,115,010 | 19·4
1843 | 29,591 | 16,315,872 | 18·1
1844 | 26,542 | 16,516,734 | 16·0
1845 | 24,303 | 16,717,596 | 14·5
1846 | 25,107 | 16,918,458 | 14·9
1847 | 28,833 | 17,119,320 | 16·8
1848 | 30,349 | 17,320,182 | 17·5
1849 | 27,816 | 17,521,044 | 15·9
1850 | 26,813 | 17,721,906 | 15·1
+------------+-------------+----------
Total for 10 years | 278,413 | 168,180,270 |
+------------+-------------+
Average ditto | 27,841 | 16,818,027 | 16·5
+------------+-------------+----------
[Illustration: MAP SHOWING THE NUMBER WHO SIGNED THE MARRIAGE REGISTER
WITH MARKS IN EVERY 100 PERSONS MARRIED; OR THE INTENSITY OF IGNORANCE
IN EACH COUNTY OF ENGLAND AND WALES.
⁂ The counties printed _black_ are those in which the number who signed
the Marriage Register with Marks is _above_ the Average.
The counties left _white_ are those in which the number who signed the
Marriage Register with Marks is _below_ the Average.
The Average has been calculated for the ten years from 1839 to 1848. ]
TABLE SHOWING THE IGNORANCE OF THE DIFFERENT COUNTIES IN ENGLAND AND
WALES, DEDUCED FROM THE NUMBER WHO SIGNED THE MARRIAGE REGISTER WITH
MARKS IN THE UNDERMENTIONED YEARS.
---------------+----------+------------------------------------------------------
| Average | Number of Males and Females who signed
|Annual No.| the Marriage Register with Marks.
COUNTIES. |of Persons+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
| married, | 1839. | 1840. | 1841. | 1842. | 1843. | 1844. |
| 1839-48. | | | | | | |
---------------+----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
Bedford | 1,850 | 1,112 | 1,148 | 956 | 921 | 1,028 | 1,110 |
Berks | 2,588 | 1,036 | 1,131 | 1,061 | 1,063 | 1,111 | 1,079 |
Bucks | 1,920 | 979 | 1,008 | 820 | 918 | 882 | 918 |
Cambridge | 2,784 | 1,269 | 1,372 | 1,495 | 1,389 | 1,281 | 1,330 |
Chester | 5,160 | 2,343 | 2,510 | 2,350 | 2,096 | 2,366 | 2,403 |
Cornwall | 4,894 | 2,150 | 2,148 | 2,128 | 2,312 | 2,284 | 2,141 |
Cumberland | 2,072 | 470 | 563 | 527 | 539 | 506 | 500 |
Derby | 3,652 | 1,521 | 1,490 | 1,321 | 1,061 | 1,351 | 1,455 |
Devon | 8,678 | 2,603 | 1,817 | 2,744 | 2,971 | 2,995 | 3,055 |
Dorset | 2,358 | 725 | 930 | 785 | 852 | 449 | 945 |
Durham | 5,770 | 1,900 | 2,083 | 2,001 | 1,830 | 1,771 | 1,825 |
Essex | 4,228 | 1,964 | 2,215 | 2,103 | 2,062 | 2,110 | 2,157 |
Gloucester | 6,918 | 2,329 | 2,541 | 2,347 | 2,197 | 2,393 | 2,277 |
Hereford | 1,268 | 462 | 463 | 522 | 548 | 609 | 516 |
Hertford | 1,976 | 1,189 | 1,045 | 1,057 | 954 | 1,083 | 1,038 |
Hunts | 904 | 391 | 465 | 453 | 446 | 439 | 413 |
Kent | 8,094 | 2,431 | 2,382 | 2,476 | 2,488 | 2,556 | 2,502 |
Lancaster | 34,068 | 16,411 | 15,793 | 16,096 | 14,626 | 17,820 | 19,850 |
Leicester | 3,460 | 1,494 | 1,504 | 1,281 | 1,189 | 1,416 | 1,505 |
Lincoln | 5,530 | 1,944 | 2,209 | 2,174 | 2,082 | 1,959 | 1,998 |
Middlesex | 31,590 | 5,134 | 5,569 | 5,242 | 5,045 | 5,416 | 6,141 |
Monmouth | 2,562 | 1,646 | 1,697 | 1,283 | 1,091 | 1,110 | 1,228 |
Norfolk | 6,042 | 2,485 | 2,772 | 2,514 | 2,832 | 2,816 | 2,901 |
Northampton | 3,194 | 1,338 | 1,489 | 1,377 | 1,220 | 1,404 | 1,441 |
Northumberland | 4,094 | 1,149 | 1,264 | 1,108 | 965 | 1,013 | 811 |
Nottingham | 4,168 | 1,715 | 1,724 | 1,645 | 1,642 | 1,742 | 1,953 |
Oxford | 2,316 | 826 | 961 | 951 | 957 | 929 | 889 |
Rutland | 216 | 115 | 92 | 125 | 99 | 97 | 69 |
Salop | 3,180 | 1,647 | 1,568 | 1,497 | 1,533 | 1,392 | 1,496 |
Somerset | 6,226 | 2,300 | 2,608 | 2,705 | 2,643 | 2,654 | 2,643 |
Southampton | 5,768 | 1,614 | 1,801 | 2,049 | 1,959 | 1,910 | 1,977 |
Stafford | 8,292 | 3,886 | 4,045 | 3,552 | 3,065 | 3,335 | 3,937 |
Suffolk | 4,738 | 2,173 | 2,353 | 2,342 | 2,057 | 2,124 | 2,304 |
Surrey | 10,374 | 2,128 | 2,260 | 2,180 | 2,129 | 2,205 | 2,185 |
Sussex | 4,268 | 1,452 | 1,480 | 1,400 | 1,364 | 1,443 | 1,427 |
Warwick | 6,494 | 1,512 | 2,470 | 2,294 | 2,052 | 2,415 | 2,516 |
Westmorland | 780 | 195 | 191 | 177 | 185 | 193 | 225 |
Wilts | 3,236 | 1,495 | 1,603 | 1,550 | 1,487 | 1,522 | 1,527 |
Worcester | 5,536 | 3,201 | 3,098 | 2,934 | 2,588 | 2,528 | 2,974 |
York | 26,664 | 11,439 | 11,899 | 10,726 | 10,503 | 11,099 | 12,970 |
North Wales | 5,164 | 3,028 | 3,022 | 2,999 | 2,925 | 2,694 | 2,737 |
South Wales | 8,152 | 4,382 | 4,532 | 4,378 | 4,093 | 4,190 | 4,617 |
+----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
Total for | | | | | | | |
England | | | | | | | |
and Wales | 261,340 |100,616 |104,335 | 99,634 | 94,996 |101,235 |107,985 |
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