SOME QUEER STATISTICS

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 21, Issue 89, 2 December 1910, Page 5

SOME QUEER STATISTICS

“ THE HOLY BOND OF MATRIMONY.”

Recent statistics published in Victoria reveal the following curious facts Two boys of 15 tied for the youngest bridegroomship. One married a girl of 21; the other a girl of 22. Or perhaps the girls married the boys. The records make no comment. The two oldest bridegrooms were SO and 84. One married a girl of 21. The moat popular ages for men to marry %ere 23, 24, and 25; for girls, 21, 22, and 23.

The youngest bride of the year was 13. She married a boy of 18. There were two brides of 14, and thirty of 15 years. According to the records, after a woman passes 40 her chances of naarriage are reduced by about half until she reaches an age between 50 and 54. Her chances then appear to improve. Twenty-three Chows took to their kennels 22 Australian-born girls and one English girl. The Church of England headed the marriage poll with 5304 splicings; the R. C. Church was second with 2345; the Presbyterian third with 1691; and the Methodist chape!fourth with 1464. Two husbands between the ages of 80 and 84 registered the births of children. There were two mothers aged 14. More women were mothers at 24 than at any other age. la the case of illegitimate children there were more mothers at 20.

Three first births happened after 18 years of marriage. Over a 10 years’ range Death worked hardest in the months of December and January January particularly. In February and March the Scythe did less reaping than at any other period. It might advance as an excuse that those two months were the favourites for suicide.

A most alarming feature is that last year cancer killed more people than in any year back as far as 1876 itbe records go no farther). For every million of population 718 died of the horror, an increase of 147 per million in 10 years,