620 rrerporT—1883. 
If 100 acres of arable employs 4 labourers, 1,000 acres, 30 labourers; 10,000 acres, 
-300 labourers; 100,000 acres, 3,000 labourers; 1,000,000 acres, 30,000 labourers ; 
1,500,000 will employ 45,000; deducting 15,000, employed in that changed into 
pasture farming, we have 30,000 less labourers employed thereon than we had on 
arable farming; taking those wage-earners at 40/. per annum each, we have a total 
of 1,200,000/. less paid for manual Jabour on the same acreage of land, accounting 
for much that has occurred in our rural districts. 
8. Foot and Mouth Disease of Cattle: its True History and Remedy. 
By the Rev. D. Act, D.D., F.R.A.S. 
The following is a summary of the points discussed by the author. The disease 
-of foreign origin:—remedy, slaughter foreign animals at the port of debarkation. 
Losses of animals, waste of food and wealth. Losses both to the producer and 
‘to the consumer. Statistics of importations during the past and present year. 
Action of the House of Commons on Mr, Chaplin’s motion. Stringent measures 
-must be used—much more than those heretofore put into execution. The question 
far more extensive than the agricultural interest, but affecting the supply of food 
-and the aggregated wealth of the community. 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 
The following Report and Papers were read :— 
1. Report of the Anthropometric Committee.—See Reports, p. 253. 
2. On the Effect of Alcoholic Drinks on Length of Human Life. 
By W. Brauam Rosinson, R.N. 
Since the Roman Preetorian prefect Ulpianus wrote on the value of life, facts 
~ have been accumulating which admit of the expectation of human life being more 
correctly estimated than in his day, though much has yet to be learned. 
Before the art of printing was discovered, it was of importance, with the view 
of discoveries in art and science being followed up, that men should live long; and 
now the true value of long and healthy lives cannot be overrated, even from an 
economist’s point of view. 
In this day some insurance societies show that longevity can be increased by 
_ simply not drinking, as beverages, intoxicating drinks. 
There are several mutual life assurance societies which keep the statistics of the 
lives of the general section and of those persons who abstain from strong drinks 
«quite separate, and some of the facts kindly furnished to the author by these in- 
. stitutions he quotes, bearing in mind that many difficulties at present present them- 
selves in this inquiry which, no doubt, will be eliminated in future years, such as 
~ the time the several abstainers insured may have ceased to drink alcoholic liquors, 
.and the quantity and kind they took during the period or periods they were not 
abstainers. 
The most valuable facts are furnished by the United Kingdom Temperance and 
General Provident Institution, established in 1840, which institution on December 
31, 1874, had 9,539 whole life policies in the temperance section and 15,838 in the 
. general. 
In seventeen years the following were the results, viz. :— 
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