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born alive, in the proportion of 104.5 males to 100 females. But in 1857 the male births throughout England were as 105.2, and in 1865 as 104.0 to 100. Looking to separate districts, in Buckinghamshire (where on an average 5000 children are annually born) the mean proportion of male to female births, during the whole period of the above ten years, was 102.8 to 100; whilst in N. Wales (where the average annual births are 12,873) it was as high as 106.2 to 100. Taking a still smaller district, viz, Rutlandshire (where the annual births average only 730 in 1864 the male births were as 114.6

[Descent 1: 300-1: "Man.—In England during ten years (from 1857 to 1866) 707,120 children on an annual average have been born alive, in the proportion of 104·5 males to 100 females. But in 1857 the male births throughout England were as 105·2, and in 1865 as 104·0 to 100. Looking to separate districts, in Buckinghamshire (where on an average 5000 children are annually born) the mean proportion of male to female births, during the whole period of the above ten years, was as 102·8 to 100; whilst in N. Wales (where the average annual births are 12,873) it was as high as 106·2 to 100. Taking a still smaller district, viz., Rutlandshire (where the annual births average only 739), in 1864 the male births were as 114·6, and in 1862 as 97·0 to 100; but even in this small district the average of the 7385 births during the whole ten years was as 104·5 to 100; that is in the same ratio as throughout England.32
32 'Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Registrar-General for 1866.' In this report (p. xii) a special decennial table is given."]