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female children, or in the proportion of 99.5 males to 

 10Q females. 



Of the children born in Great Britain it is said 

 that there are 104.75 males to 100 females, 1 the pro- 

 portion of males being more than five per cent, larger 

 than in the cases under consideration. 



The following table, from the report of the Census 

 Commissioners of Ireland for 1841,' gives the propor- 

 tion of sexes in the largest number of cases in which 

 the relative ages of the parents are stated, that has 

 come to my knowledge : 



TABLE SHOWING THE FECUNDITY OP IRISH MARRIAGES FROM 1830 TO 



1841. 



1 " Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology," vol. ii., p. 478. 



a Copied from Walford's " Insurance Cyclopaedia," vol. iii., p. 189. 



