THE JUKES. 79 



THE STATISTICAL RESULTS. 



At Auburn 152 males and one female were examined, at Sing Sing 

 ninety-two males and six females, a total of 251 persons. Of this 

 number eighteen have been totally rejected. As each man was ex- 

 amined, whenever there was doubt as to the veracity or the intelli- 

 gence of his reply, such answer was recorded on the schedule togeth- 

 er with a note of interrogation, and when the tabulation was made, 

 such answer was excluded. In this way a portion of one hundred 

 of the schedules was thrown out, which explains why the following 

 tables do not balance exactly in every item. These tables are 

 strictly an enumeration of certain ascertained facts respecting the 

 persons who were examined, and conform strictly to the requirements 

 of positive statistics. They must not be used as a basis to reason on 

 as to the relative frequency of different offenses, or to compute any 

 ratios on any of the points they contain to be applied to the criminal 

 class in general, because the numbers are insufficient, because they 

 exclude offenders in penitentiaries and common jails, and because 

 they represent a limited experience in only two State prisons (Sing 

 Sing and Auburn), the effect of transferring convicts from these to 

 Clinton prison being equivalent to the selection of certain ages and 

 classes of convicts, so that a true average cannot be found in any 

 one prison. The tables are constructed in such a manner that the 

 total number under any one heading are in the black figures run- 

 ning diagonally across the table, the light figures on the same line 

 giving the number in sub-headings. Thus in table I., habitual crim- 

 inals 40, of whom 34 were sane, 6 of neurotic stock, 15 refuge boys, 

 33 no trade, &c., &c. 



