248 Distribution of Fertility 
TABLE XIII. 
Distribution of Fertility. Women dying beyond the Reproductive Period. 
Experience of New South Wales. 
Dize 01 
Deaths 
of Married 
X er Cent, oi 
bum 01 
dumber of 
irer oeni. 01 
bum of 
Women 
Total 
IT CZCcli Ici^co 
X 0 IdL 
Percentages 
0 
1110 
10-802 
10*802 
1 
533 
5-187 
15*989 
533 
-837 
■837 
2 
581 
5-654 
21 ^643 
1162 
1'826 
2-663 
3 
644 
6-267 
27 '910 
1932 
3 035 
5-698 
k 
702 
6-831 
34"741 
2808 
4^411 
10-109 
5 
813 
7-912 
42^653 
4065 
6^230 
16 -339 
6 
855 
8-320 
50-973 
5130 
8-216 
24-555 
7 
976 
9-498 
60'471 
6832 
10 733 
35-288 
8 
963 
9-371 
69-842 
7704 
12^103 
47-391 
0 
847 
8 -243 
78-085 
7623 
1P976 
59-367 
10 
786 
7-649 
85-734 
7860 
12-348 
71-715 
568 
91 '261 
6248 
t7 0 ID 
SI ■'i'll 
0 1 00 i. 
12 
422 
4-107 
95-368 
5064 
7^956 
89-487 
13 
226 
2-199 
97-567 
2938 
4-615 
94-102 
n 
129 
1-255 
98-822 
1806 
2-838 
96-940 
15 
57 
■555 
99-377 
855 
1-343 
98-283 
16 
39 
•380 
99-757 
624 
-980 
99-263 
17 
12 
-116 
99-873 
204 
-320 
99-583 
18 
5 
-049 
99-922 
90 
-142 
99-725 
10 
2 
-020 
99-942 
38 
■060 
99-785 
20 
2 
•019 
99-961 
40 
•063 
99-848 
21 
1 
-010 
99-971 
21 
■033 
99-881 
22 
1 
•010 
99-981 
22 
■034 
99-915 
2Jf 
1 
-010 
99-991 
24 
■038 
99-953 
30 
1 
-009 
100-000 
30 
■047 
100-000 
Totals 
10276 
100-000 
63653 
100^000 
Median 
5-8831 
8-2179 
Mean Family = 6- 1943 children 
agrees remarkably close with that computed by Professor Pearson for the Danish 
statistics, viz. 5-717. This is of course for all women at whatever age married, 
but whose marriage had existed lo years or more at the time of the New South 
Wales census of 1901. From the returns of that census I have been enabled 
to compile not only the durations of marriage but the ages of the women at 
the time of the census together with the number of childless women. The results 
are shown in Table XIV. 
This table shows that under suitable conditions of age at marriage and duration 
of marriage, the naturally sterile women do not exceed 2| per cent, of the total, 
and even of that small percentage some part is probably due to impotent husbands. 
We see also from this table that barrenness increases with the age at marriage, 
