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taking the sexes together, this figure l)eing reduced to 119 for 

 males and raised to 136 for females. The net movements 

 within the various counties involved a transference of about 

 304,000 males and 350,000 females from one district to another. 

 Movement from a district in one county to one in another county 

 involved a transference of about 172,000 males and 230,000 

 females, whilst some 418,000 males and 201,000 females left the 

 country. The previously observed greater migratory tendency 

 of the female seems at any rate partly due to the fact that when 

 migration is tested by records of birth-places the excess of 

 migratory males are not included, owing to their removal beyond 

 the limits of the kingdom. Measuring intensity of movement by 

 the proportion of net migration to mean population, the absorption 

 is most marked in London suburbs, and in those of some 

 proxincial towns in only a slightly less degree, and especially is 

 marked in conveniently situated watering-places at the seaside, 

 Bournemouth heading the list. The absorption into growing 

 industrial towns is less strongly shown than might have been 

 anticipated. 'I'hese movements indicate some amelioration of 

 the evils of life in crowded cities. The districts from which 

 efflux has been strongest are found in the south-west, in Wales, 

 on the Scotch border, and in north-cast Yorkshire and Lincoln- 

 shire. A cartoiiram illustratinii the movement was exhibited. 



