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tion, M'ho were divided among no less than 110 different branches of 

 trade, thus demonstrating the division of labour to an extent far beyond 

 the calculation of political economists. Of the whole number, 56 per 

 cent, were workers in the metals. The table of weekly wages showed 

 the result of an inquiry into 662 cases, of which 479 were taken with- 

 out choice from the members of the Provident Institution, mentioned 

 in the last return. The averages were as follows : for boys 7 to 13 

 years of age 3s. id., and for girls 2s. 4c?. per week ; from 14 to 20 years 

 5s. 9d. for males, and 5s. 2d. for females ; for men and women 24^. 3d., 

 and 8s. per week. Reasons were assigned for the belief that these 

 averages might be taken as a near approximation to the average wages 



Contributions to the Medical Statistics of Birmingham, by a Local 

 Committee. Presented by Francis Clabk, JEsq. 



Elaborate returns were received from the Town Infirmary, the General 

 Hospital, the General Dispensary, and the Eye Infirmary ; and also a re- 

 turn from the Superintendent Registrar of the Births, Marriages and 

 Deaths during the last two years. 



The medical institutions are of two different kinds, the first being a 

 parochial infirmary for the relief of paupers, and the others being sup- 

 ported by subscriptions. The returns from the Town Infirmary by Mr. 

 F. Ryland, were confined to the parish of Birmingham, there being 

 none received from Edgbaston or Aston. They comprised, — 1st, A 

 return of the number of in-patients for the last seven years ; 2nd, A 

 return of the number of out-patients relieved in each quarter, for ten 

 years, with the number who have received pecuniary relief; 3rd, Re- 

 turns of the occupations and diseases of 9172 males, and 8774 females, 

 out-patients; and, 4th, A return of the age, sex, and disease of 1518 

 cases of death among the out-patients. — The returns from the General 

 Hospital by Mr. S. E. Bindlers, comprised, — 1st, A return of 6133 

 cases, with the sex, disease and mortality ; 2nd, A return of the num- 

 ber of in-patients and out-patients, and the amount of subscriptions re- 

 ceived from the commencement, with the annual expenditure for the 

 last ten years ; and, 3rd, Four returns, showing the nature of the 

 fractures in 943 cases occurring in the last two years, and statements 

 of the results of the cases of paralysis, scirrhous and joint diseases, 

 which had occurred in the same period. — The returns from the Gene- 

 ral Dispensary by Mr. F. Ryland, comprised the number of medical 

 and midwifery cases, and of vaccinations, with the expenditure for the 

 last ten years. It appeared that, during that period, 29,713 persons 

 had received medical relief, 7,892 midwifery cases were attended, and 

 26,089 children vaccinated, at the cost of 13,105/. Is. 3d.\ giving an 

 average of 45. 9d. as the cost of the sick and midwifery cases. — The 

 returns from the Eye Infirmary by Mr. Richard Middlemore, gave, — 

 1st, The number, sex, and cost of the patients, from 1824 to March 

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