[Transcriber’s Note:  In the original manuscript, Table I occupied two facing pages.  This is the left-hand (sinister) page; the right-hand (dexter) page is immediately below.]

TABLE I. —­ Census Returns of 1000 Families of Factory Hands in Coventry, and 1000 Families of Agricultural Labourers in Warwickshire, grouped according to the Age of the Mother and the Number of Children in the Family.

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|NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN FAMILY.                    |
|---------|---------|---------|----------|--------|
|    0.   |    1.   |    2.   |    3.    |   4.   |
|---------+---------+---------+----------+--------|
| F  | A  | F  | A  | F  | A  | F  | A  | F  | A  |
| a  | g  | a  | g  | a  | g  | a  | g  | a  | g  |
| c  | r  | c  | r  | c  | r  | c  | r  | c  | r  |
| t  | i  | t  | i  | t  | i  | t  | i  | t  | i  |
| o  | c  | o  | c  | o  | c  | o  | c  | o  | c  |
| r  | u  | r  | u  | r  | u  | r  | u  | r  | u  |
Age of Mother  | y  | l  | y  | l  | y  | l  | y  | l  | y  | l  |
| .  | t  | .  | t  | .  | t  | .  | t  | .  | t  |
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24 to 25       | 28   17   40   31 | 24   32   12   10    2      |
|                   +-------------------+         |
26  " 27       | 19   18   36   24   36   28   23   26 |  8    8 |
|                                       |         |
28  " 29       | 18   17   32   16  20[A] 33   36   23 | 14   23 |
|                                       |         |
30  " 31       | 13    4   23   18   24   21  28[A] 31 | 18   22 |
|                                       |         |
32  " 33       | 18   11   16   14   19   13  22[A] 27 | 23   26 |
|---------+                             |         |
34  " 35       | 14   15 | 11    6   17   16   28   18 | 31   34 |
|         +-------------------+         |         |
36  " 37       | 12   17    4   11   10   13 | 22   14 | 16   20 |
|                             +---------+         |
38  " 39       |  8    6    9   15   14   17   16   21   22   23 |
|                                                 |
40             |  8    7    3   10    8    9   13   14    8   10 |
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Total within   |                                                 |
outline     | 96   67  258  109  116  111  171  149           |
Total between  |                                                 |
outlines    | 42   45   16   36   56   71   29   35  142  166 |
Total beyond   |                                                 |
outline     |                                                 |
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Total          |138  112  174  145  172  182  200  184  142  166 |
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[Footnote A:  These three cases are anomalous, the Factory being less than the Agricultural.  In the instance of 20-33, the anomaly is double, because the sequence of the figures shows that neither of these can be correct; certainly not the first of them.]