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Pi-ogress of Population and Wealth 



five per cent ; and after seventy, Connecticut again exceeds by 

 about seven per cent. It is not easy to say in what degrees these 

 diversities, thus varying and alternating, are influenced by a differ- 

 ence of natural increase, of emigration, and of mortality in the 

 two countries. It must be admitted that there are few parts of 

 the United States which would compare as advantageously with 

 England in the probabilities of life as Connecticut. 



The number of Deaf, and Dumb, and Blind, in the white and coloured population of 

 'the United Stales, on the 1st of August, 1830. 



COLOURED PERSONS. 



States and Terri- 

 tories. 



DEAF AND DUMB. 



Under 14 tc 

 14. 25. 



Maine, 



New Hampshire,. 



Vermont, 



Massachusetts,.... 



Rhode Island, 



Connecticut, 



New York, 



New Jersey, 



Pennsylvania, 



Delaware, 



Maryland, 



Dist.of Columbia,. 



Virginia, 



North Carolina,.... 

 South Carolina,.... 



Georgia, 



Florida 



Alahama, 



Mississippi, .... 



Louisiana, 



Tennessee, .... 



Arkansas, 



Kentucky, 



Missouri, 



Ohio, 



Indiana, 



Illinois, 



Michigan, 



64 

 32 

 39 

 56 

 6 

 43 



277 

 64 



222 



6 



50 



4 



132 

 70 

 60 

 50 

 2 

 45 

 12 

 15 

 59 

 6 



100 

 12 



148 

 49 

 23 

 4 



60 

 55 

 59 

 62 

 22 



152 



310 

 71 



279 



15 



31 



5 



118 

 81 

 52 

 51 



2.5 and 



upw'ds 



56 

 4b 

 55 

 138 



26 



99 

 255 



72 

 255 



14 



54 



3 



169 



44 



3 

 19 



7 

 19 

 54 



2 

 9C 

 1C 

 118 

 33 

 16 



4 



18C 

 1 35 

 153 

 256 



56 

 294 

 842 

 20' 

 758 



35 

 ] 35 



12 

 419 

 230 

 174 

 145 

 5 



89 



29 



49 

 172 



10 

 303 



27 

 426 

 141 



66 



15 



DEAF AND DUMI 



Under 14 to 25 and 



14. 25. | upw. 



159 

 105 



51 

 218 



56 

 188 

 642 

 205 

 475 



18 

 147 



11 

 356 

 223 

 102 

 150 



25 

 36 



176 



8 



It',! I 



27 



232 



85 



3.", 



5 



Total, 1,652 1,905 1,806 5,363 3,974 272 246^ 224 ! 743 1,470 



The white population at that time being 10,537,373, and the 

 coloured 2,328,642, the number of whites, deaf and dumb, according 

 to the preceding table (5,363) was equivalent to 1 in 1,964, and of 

 coloured persons (743) was 1 in 3,134. Of the blind, the number 

 of whites (3,974) was 1 in 2,651, and of coloured persons, 1 in 1,584. 

 This shows an excess of whites, deaf and dumb, in a somewhat 



