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Sect. XV.] 



STATISTICS. 



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population, and increasing w 



ealth, m;^^" lead to a greater 



number of offenders, without really i ^-'ng to th^ crimi- 

 nality of the community, since the nature and quality of 

 the crimes committed may have bc^^ome less serious. 

 The number registered in the calendars will be increased 

 if two cases of petty larceny shall have taken the place 

 of one murder, and yet no one would thence affirm that 

 crime has increased in the country. 



The provision made for the indigent 



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nerally, and 



especially for the sick and the aged among them, will 

 naturally call for inquiry. The number and extent of 

 establishments answering to our union-houses, alms- 

 houses, hospitals, dispensaries, and lunatic asylums, 

 should be sought for, with every particular that can be 

 o-athered concerning the manner in which they have been 

 estaWished and are supported, and the number succoured. 

 It would be a service rendered to an important branch of 

 science if the numbers, in proportion to population, are 



ascertained of lunatics, of blind persons, and of the deaf 



and dumb. 



The length and condition of the public roads should be 

 inquired into, as well as the system under which their 

 repair is provided for, whether by the State, or by tolls 

 collected from passengers, or by the money or labour 

 contiibuted by residents in the districts through wliich the 

 roads are carried. The modes of travelling, as well as 

 the nature and number of public carriages ; and whether, 

 as in some countries, they are the property of the govern- 

 ment, or, as in England, the result of private enterprise^ 

 hould also be ascertained, as they easily may be. The 

 means for internal navigation, whether by rivers or os 



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