England's recent progress : an investigation of the statistics of migrations, mortality, &c. in the twenty years from 1881 to 1901 as indicating tendencies toward the growth or decay of particular communities / by Thomas A. Welton.

  • Welton, Thomas A. (Thomas Abercrombie), 1835-1918.
Date:
1911
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: England's recent progress : an investigation of the statistics of migrations, mortality, &c. in the twenty years from 1881 to 1901 as indicating tendencies toward the growth or decay of particular communities / by Thomas A. Welton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    7/818
    PREFACE. j * It seems right that I should explain how I came to take upon myself the responsibility of submitting these figures to the public. As far back as 1857 I was occupied in studying the Census Tables then available, and my Essays on the Census of Occupations, the first of which Vas read before the Statistical Society in June 1858, were printed in 1860. The doctrine as to classification which I then advocated was not without influence over the subsequent publications of the Census Office. About the same time I was engaged upon the population statistics of Lancashire and Cheshire, and my papers on this subject, written jointly with the late Mr. John Towne Danson, were printed in the Transactions of the Historic Society (Liverpool) in 1857 and succeeding years. I again dealt with the subject of the statistics of English Occupations in a paper read before the same Society in December 1868, and in a further paper read in March 1869 I considered the statistics of births, deaths and migrations. In a paper on the movement of population in certain rural counties, where population upon the whole was almost stationary (Statistical Journal, 1879-80), I entered upon the subject of migrations at particular ages. A paper read before the Manchester Statistical Society “ On Forty Years’ Industrial Changes in England and Wales ” (9th March, 1898), gave a summary of the Census figures as to Occupation in 1851 and 1891. The general growth and distribution of Population in England and Wales in the ninety years 1801-1891 was the subject of a paper (Statistical Journal, 1900, pp. 527-589), which gained an award of the Guy silver medal. These are not the only statistical papers of mine bearing on subjects akin to those treated in this book, which have appeared in the Statistical Journal and elsewhere during the last fifty years, and I have, therefore, had ample time and opportunity to consider the questions dealt with in my present work, and have entered upon it partly for my own information, though it would not have reached its present dimensions had I not formed the opinion that the results to be attained were of great interest and value to the public.