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and over, redistributed iu respect to both age and sex proportionally to the 

 census of 1901 for England and Wales. 



The question now arises, Will these differences fully account for the 

 deficiency of female lunatics as compared, say, with England and Wales ? 

 Some attempt has been made to answer the question in Table IV. In this 

 table is calculated the number of male and female lunatics over twenty years 



40 



30 : 



20 



10 5 



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ofj[age there should have been returned at the various age-periods in the 

 census of 1906 if our population over twenty had been distributed in age 

 and sex as was that of England and Wales at the census of 1901. 



Table IV. 



