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statement showing the adult deaths per 1000 of each class, and which have been 
calculated in the same way as the marriage rates : 
Mortality Rate per 
Class of Occupation 1000 Males over 20 years 
Agricultural, Pastoral, &c ... 12'69 
Commercial ... ... ... ... 13'29 
Professional ... ... ... ... 15'73 
Domestic 16-59 
Industrial 22-72 
Total 16-47 
Thus notwithstanding an adult mortality far in excess of the other occupations 
and with the highest infantile and juvenile mortalities the frequency of marriage 
is also so much in excess that as Professor Pearson puts it, "after all society recruits 
itself from below," that is from the artisans — although as his statistics referred 
only to the City of Copenhagen he was not in possession of information regarding 
the rural occupations. This class it is seen with the highest fertility and the 
lowest mortality at every age absolutely fails to contribute its fair quota to the 
community in consequence of its low marriage rate. 
When we examine the gross fertilities of the various classes (remembering 
that these arc the results of all durations of marriage and of widowers, as well 
as of married men whose wives survive them) and compare with the Anglo-Saxon 
and Danish statistics, we again see that up to the present there is but little 
Malthusian restraint upon the population in New South Wales — what little there 
may be apparently being confined to the Professional, Domestic, and Commercial 
classes. The ages of the brides at marriage in these classes have not been tabulated, 
but it may be of interest to show the average age at marriage of the bridegrooms, 
which according to the marriages of the years 1901 and 1902 were as follows : 
Class ■ Average Age at Marriage 
Professional ... ... ... ... .30-22 years 
Domestic 30-97 „ 
Commercial ... ... ... ... 28-88 „ 
Industrial 28-57 „ 
Agricultural, Pastoral, &c. ... ... 29-18 „ 
As the classes of occupations are rather comprehensive I append Table XXX. 
which shows similar information to Table XXVIII. for some of the sub-classes. 
The agricultural class is unquestionably the most prolific in the community 
accompanied by an exceedingly low mortality among its offspring. The medical 
profession would appear to be conspicuously below the average of the whole com- 
munity, whilst ministers of religion just reach that average. The comparatively 
heavy mortality amongst the offspring of the artisan classes is significant. 
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