VI.—THE FREQUENCY-DISTRIBUTION. 
districts with 23 to 3} per cent. of the population in receipt of 
relief, and then tails off slowly to unions with 6, 7, and 8 per 
cent. of pauperism. 
TABLE VIII. —Showing the Number of Registration Districts in England and 
Wales with Different Percentages of the Population in receipt of Poor-law 
Relief on the 1st January 1891. (Yule, Jour. Roy. Stat. Soc., vol. lix., 
1896, p. 347, g.v. for distributions for earlier years.) See Fig. 10. 
Percentage of 4 ober of 
the Popalation given Percent- 
Wn Relict ° age in receipt 
SHEE of Relief, 
075-125 18 
125-175 43 
175-225 7. 
2:25-2-75 & 
275-325 100 
8:25-3'75 ¢ 
375-425 : 
425-475 \ 
475-525 
525-575 : 
575-625 : 
625-675 
675-725 
725-775 
775-825 
825-875 
Total 
While the distribution of stature is in general symmetrical, that 
of weight is asymmetrical or skew, the greater frequencies lying 
towards the lower end of the range. This is shown very well by 
the data (Table IX. and fig. 11) collected by the same British 
Association Committee, from the Report of which the data as to 
stature were cited in the last section. As in the case of the stature 
diagram (fig. 6), the small error of 1 lb. has been neglected, for 
the sake of brevity, in lettering the base-line of fig. 11, the classes 
being treated as if they were 90 1b.-100 Ilb., 100 1b.-110 Ib, 
and so on. 
Table X. and fig. 12 give a biological illustration, viz. the 
distribution of fecundity (ratio of yearling foals produced to 
coverings) in mares. The student should notice the difficulty 
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