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Ibid. for 1856.

CLAY, Obstetric Cyclopedia, p. 21.

Separate records of the premature births in New York were not made before this period. They were not rendered in 1842; I have therefore omitted in the calculation the still-births of the same year. For a series of the official reports, I am indebted to the present City Inspector, Mr. Geo. W. Morton.

Report of 1849.

Loc. cit., p. 195.

Loc. cit., i. p. 344.

Ibid., p. 343.

Med. Times and Gazette, June 1856, p. 611.

Les Consummations de Paris.

Loc. cit.

DE JONNÉS, loc. cit., p. 194.

Ibid., p. 195.

Journal des Economistes, 1847.

MILL, loc. cit., i. p. 336. The italics are my own. I shall hereafter refer back to this passage.

Ibid., i. p. 417.

Essay on Population.

MILL, loc. cit., i. p. 417.

Travels of Anacharsis, v. p. 270.

Ibid., iv. p. 342.

Satires, vi., v. 592.

Amor., lib. 2.; Heroïdes, epist. 2.

REEVE’s Apologies.

BLAQUIERE, Letters from the Med., pp. 90, 184; SLADE, Records of Travels, ii. p. 162.

BARROW, Travels in China, p. 113; DE PAUW, Philosoph. Dissert; MEDHURST, China, &c., p. 45; SMITH, Exploratory Visit, &c., i. p. 53.

GOLOWNIN, Memoirs of a Captivity, iii. p. 222.

MOOR, Hindoo Infanticide, p. 63; BUCHANAN, Christian Researches in Asia, p. 49; WARD, View of the History, &c., of the Hindoos, p. 393.

For a long list of authorities on these points, see BECK, ii. p. 389, et seq.

Belgium.