Excerpt from Childbirth in New South Wales: A Study in Statistics The investigations, the results of which appear in the fol lowing pages, represent the experience derived from the various colonies of Australia, but chiefly from New South Wales. As, however, there is nothing in regard to the pheno mena of childbirth in which Australia can be said to differ in any material way from other civilised countries, the results can be considered, if not of universal application, as applicable to communities under conditions similar to those prevailing in Australia. The particular branch of somal statistics dealt with has been greatly neglected, and much of what is here presented will be welcomed by all interested in such matters, as no similar information has hitherto been published. The influence of the married state as a help to a longer life is incidentally investigated, and the statistics confirm the popular notion that the married, as a rule, live longer than the single, even when all are excluded from the comparison whom natural or acquired disabilities force to remain unmarried. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.