of the Weflminfter General Difpcnfary. 365 
table of the ages at which women begin and ceafe to be capable 
of bearing children, and of the intermediate periods at 
which they a re mofr fo. 
• Of 2102 * pregnant women 
f 3 6 or 1 in 58 were from - 
49 or 1 : in 43 w T ere 
578 or 5 in, 1 9 were from - 
699 nearly 1 in 3 were from 
407 nearly 1 in 5 were from 
291 or 3 jin 22 were from - 
36 or 1 ;in 58 were from - 
6 or 1 in 350 were from 
2102 
* Although 2102 women, the number here mentioned, obtained letters, en- 
titling them to the affiftance of the midwives, 1897 on h were delivered by them ; 
the remainder either removed out of the bounds of the Difpenfary, or, from- fome 
alteration in their ckcumftances, were obliged to go to an hofpital or workhoufe. 
f 1 of thefe women was between 15 and 16 years of age. 
1 between 16 and 17 | 
3 between 17 and 18; 
30 between 18 and 19; and 
2 t between 19 and 20. 
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Years of age. 
15 to 1.9 *1 85, 0-r I in 25, £rcm> 
20 j 15 to 20 inclufive. 
21 to 2 5 j 1684, or four -fifths 
26 to 30 \ were from 21 to 
31 to 35 J 35 inclufive. 
36 to 40 
41 to 45 1 42, or 1 in 50., from. 
4610493 411049. 
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