that the West Riding of York, in which the probability of life is so little for newly born children, is one of the most manufacturing districts in England, while the North Riding, in which children have a better chance of life than in the rest of England, is agricultural, and one of the most thinly inhabited. Elsewhere, Mr. Rukman remarks: "Such, indeed on infant life, is the effect of crowded residence in the immediate vicinity of the several factories, that in Lancashire 36 per cent of THE END. |