VIL.—THE FREQUENCY-DISTRIBUTION. "1 
TABLE I. —Showing the Numbers of Registration Districts in England and 
Wales with Different mean Death-rates per Thousand of the Population 
per Annum for the Ten Years 1881-90. (Material from the Supplement 
to the 55th Annual Report of the Registrar-Gemeral for England and 
Wales [C.—7769] 1895.) 
Number of Number of 
Mean Arvinal Districts with | Mean Annual Districts with 
Death-rate Death-rate Death-rate Deatheraty 
“UY between Limite "between Limits’ 
stated. stated. 
125-135 5 235-245 
135-145 16 245-255 
14'5-155 Al 25°5-26'5 
15°5-16'5 ‘ 26-5-27"5 
165-175 los 275-285 
17'5-18'5 Iv 285-295 
185-195 6 29°5-30'5 
19-5-20°5 4, 305-315 
205-215 20 315-325 
2115-225 1. 325-335 
22-5-235 
Total 
Whilst a glance through the original returns fails to convey 
any very definite impression, owing to the large and erratic 
differences between the death-rates in successive districts, a brief 
inspection of the above table brings out a number of important 
points. Thus we see that the death-rates range, in round 
numbers, from 13 to 33 per thousand per annum, but in the 
great majority of districts lie nearer the lower limit than the 
upper ; that the death-rates in some 60 per cent. of the districts 
lie within the narrow limits 155 to 18-5, the rates being most 
frequent near 17 per thousand, and so forth. 
(6) Table II. The ages at death, in years, of the married 
women in certain Quaker families were recorded and classified in 
5-year groups according as they were over 17'5 but under 22-5, 
over 22'5 but under 27-5, and so on. The frequency-distribution 
was as follows :(— 
[TasLE II. 
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