112 REPORT — 1839. 



street Charity School; 4'. A return from the Deaf and Dumb School. — 

 1. King Edward's School : The number of boys educated is 44'4. 

 Branch schools are fast coming into operation in various parts of the 

 borough, for giving the children in the lower grades of the middle 

 class a sound English education. The present income is about 

 4500/., but in three years it will be doubled by the falling in of 

 leases. — The Blue Coat School, for the education of children belong- 

 ing to the Established Church. Income, 2715/. annually. Boys edu- 

 cated, 143 ; girls, 63 ; total, 206. — Protestant Dissenting School, in 

 Park-street, for girls only. Income, 615/. 6s. 9d. Girls educated, 46. 

 Products of labour, 7/. 5s. \d. — School for the Deaf and Dumb : The 

 present numbers are, boys, 22 ; girls, 25 ; total, 47- Of these, 37 were 

 born deaf and dumb ; 10 became so at a very early age from illness. 

 In five cases, other members of the same family were similarly 

 afflicted. To this report were appended some pathological and physio- 

 logical remarks by M. De Puget, the master of the school, from which 

 it appeared that the imperfection of the senses most frequently occurs 

 in the offspring of marriages between first cousins and other near rela- 

 tions. — Literary and Scientific Institutions : The Philosophical con- 

 tains about 400, the Mechanics 450, and the Athenaeum 300 members. 

 To this paper were added, an account of Lench's Trust, a charity for 

 aged females ; and an account of the number of inquests held during 

 fourteen years. The average of inquests during the first seven years 

 is 115, and during the last only 170, though the population has nearly 

 doubled, and the use of dangerous machinery has increased in a still 

 greater proportion. The average of accidents from machinery, in the 

 first period, was 26, and in the second, 37- 



A Report on the State of the Working Classes in part of Rutlandshire, 

 by the Manchester Statistical Society, was read by W. R. Greg, Esq. 



The Statistical Society of Manchester having completed and pub- 

 lished an inquiry into the condition of the working classes in several 

 large manufacturing towns in the north of England, were desirous of 

 obtaining similar information with regard to some population differing 

 in character and circumstances from those which had been previously 

 examined. For this purpose they selected three parishes in Rutland- 

 shire, (a purely agricultural county,) which they conceive may be as- 

 sumed to afford a fair sample of the whole. The information thus 

 obtained they have arranged in a series of tables, of which we shall 

 briefly enumerate the most striking results. The parish of Branstown, 

 which lies on the western side of the county, contiguous to Leicester- 

 shire, contains about 1400 acres, more than three-fourths of which are 

 pasture land. It has a population of 1C2 families, comprising 425 

 individuals ; but there is no resident clergyman, and no resident land- 

 lord possessing any extensive property. The parishes of Egleton and 

 Hambleton (^^ hich have been classed together) are situated at a very 

 short distance from Oakham, the county town, and contain about 2400 



