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after the enumeration had been completed, among six clerks, each clerk to get on 
simple duty to attend to in connexion with his sheet. For instance, one clerk migh 
condense in the place for totals, whether vertical or transverse, all the informatio) 
respecting education, another that relating to matrimony, a third to religion, and % 
forth; or one could count up all the “ perpendicular cuts ” in each column, whicl 
would give the numbers of each age, of each trade, who were “ Protestant Episco 
palians ;” while the transverse totals of the same cuts would give the numbers o 
all ages of that religion and occupation, the coloured chambers in which thos 
totals should appear affording an analysis of their connubial and educational condi 
tions, showing how each was repressed or encouraged by the other. The nex 
clerk would in like manner work on ‘the “right incline cuts,” which would giv 
the same particulars regarding “ Roman Catholics,” and so on for “ Presbyterians,’ 
“ Methodists,” &c. In connexion ‘with the tabulation of these conditions of thi 
people, viz. the “ occupation,” “ age and sex,” “religion,” “education,” and “ matri 
monial state,” he suggested that the “house census ”’ might be shown to the left o 
the form; the colours and cuts to show the “classes of houses,” “numbers of families,’ 
&c., from which would be seen how those conditions affect the domestic comfort 
means of living, and position in society of our people, The author thinks that all the 
data provided by the census-paper, “Form A.”’ (excepting that relating to disease anc 
death), might be tabulated by two manipulations ; the second tabulation to show the 
“ birthplaces” of the people, the “ relation” of the members of each household t 
the head of it, the state of education of the “ married,” unmarried,” and “ widowed,’ 
the “ages and sex ;”’ the ages to be shown by,the cuts in school periods of ‘‘ unde 
seven years,” “twelve years,” and upward—which plan, he thinks, would be most 
suggestive, all showing, from an ethnological point of view, how the idiosyncracies 
of race affect us and tend to make our populations more or less homogeneous ; how- 
ever, the skilled statistician might group those conditions in a more useful manner 
A great deal of the work could be done by “ task” by people at their own homes 
Eyen the blind might do it; for the cuts would appear on the obverse of each 
sheet slightly in relief, and the acute sense of touch which they possess would 
enable them to distinguish the symbols. However he would not recommend the 
experiment; he mentioned the matter parenthetically to show how the system 
might be made available for the instruction of that afflicted class. For the com- 
pilation of “ Vital Statistics,” the writer considered the method would be peculiarly 
valuable, seeing that our occupations and social conditions have such an-effect upoi 
our health and longevity. The circumstances calculated to repress or occasio1 
certain forms of disease could be made: to converge into the column in which th 
disease would be specified ; and the exceptional data required for some classes, sucl 
as the “blind,” “deaf and dumb,” “ insane,”. “idiotic,” “decrepit,” &c., could be a 
it were eliminated into the chamber. under the head of any of these afflictions 
and as our diseased, though so many, are yet comparatively few to the genera 
population, the work would be peculiarly eile regarding them. Criminals an 
paupers are at present reported on in the status of disease; the causes and temp 
tations that led to their degraded state could be ascertained with greater nicety 
and measures founded thereon calculated to drive vice and misery from society 
The author submitted that by this system the chief difficulty that statistica 
scientists have to contend with could be removed; for as at present, owing ti 
the great labour and delay in compilation, he is obliged to contract his desire 
within the limits of what he considers practicable of attainment, that more subtl 
and refined analysis of conditions necessary to show statistical truth in all it 
bearings is too often not made, on account of which erroneous conclusions regard 
ing some cases or localities are arrived at; but as by this method any twelve sub 
sidiary conditions relating to any” one leading subject can be registered by tw 
simple operations in a most intimate and truthful connexion, the field of inquir 
can be enlarged, while at the same time the work would be diminished, therefor 
many things that at present appear anomalous or strange, and which are now onl 
accounted for by surmise, could be placed in a true statistical position. Also ney 
features of much interest would be necessarily shown; for instance, in the Iris 
census returns, the occupations of the married and unmarried are not given (hoy 
requisite in preparing factory bills!) ; but this method would show them in connexio 
