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population ; but fifty more male3 died than females, which is acconting
to the general law, the mortality being always greater among t. ;[???]
stronger sex.
More males arc born in the proportion of about five per cent
nature seems, by this excess, to provide for the many dangerous ar[???]
fatal contingencies that the male sex is exposed to.
The law is universal, more males than females being born in evei[???]
nation, savage or civilised, and the excess is in the same proportic[???]
everywhere; but the greater mortality among the men causes thiit i[???]
every society the number of males and of females is nearly equa[???]
there being, however, a slight preponderance of the latter.
Yours respectfully,
January, 1860. W. MURDOCH. 1
FORTY-NINTH REPORT.
Gentlemen,
At a special meeting of this Vestry, held on the 22nd Februar[???]
1859, the following resolution was made:—"That the Vestry joi[???]
with St. Olave's District Board of Works and the Vestry of Be»[???]
mondsey, in erecting an apparatus for testing the quality am[???]
quantity of gas supplied in this district, and that a sum not exceet[???]
ing one hundred pounds be expended in carrying the same out." 1[???]
In May, 1859, the gentlemen deputed by the Vestries of tl[???]
three above-named localities met at the Board-room of the St. Olave >[???]
district, and formed themselves into a Committee. The intention i[???]
the St. Olave's District Board, with whom the idea of erecting[???]
testing apparatus first originated, was to test the gas from the Surr[???]
Consumers' Company only; and in that iutention the members i-[???]
the Committee from Rotherhithe entirely concurred, as the distrin[???]
of St Olave's and the parish of Rotherhithe receive gas from n[???]
other company. The members of the joint Committee depute[???]
from Bermondsey urged, however, that as that parish was supplie[???]
with gas from three different companies, it would be better to te:[???]
the gas of each company, that the comparative merits of the gi[???]
supplied by each might be properly examined and appreciated.
In deference to the parish of Bermondsey, this proposal w[???]
acceded to by the Committee, who went at once to the place (Sta[???]
corner, Bermondsey) where the mains of the three companu[???]
converge, to choose a proper spot for the erection of the testin[???]
apparatus.
A house situated at the corner of Bermondsey Churchyard, an[???]