The Signs of the Times: Or, a Glance At Christendom As It is
The Signs of the Times: Or, a Glance At Christendom As It is
Horace Lorenzo Hastings
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Derby, 81. Stafford, 69. Hereford, 100. Burks, 79. Sussex, 68. Salop, 99. Leicester, 79. Cambridge, 66. Nottingham, 91. N.Wales, 78. Lincoln, 64. Cheshire, 89. S.Wales, 72. Middlesex, 40. Westmoreland, 87. • * Simgw, p. S43. t Dr. Wardlaw's Lectaros, p. 27. 202 TBI fliOlIB OF THE TIlfBB* \ Of these counties, Cumberland, Norfolk, etc., are pastoral or agricultural, and mountainous regions; Stafford, and others, are manufacturing districts; while Middlesex contains London itself. Hence, it appear...s that where there is no prostitution recognized, as in the agricultural regions^ firom seventy or eighty up to one hundred and five children in every thousand bom are children of shame, — the illegitimate off- spring of guilty parents ; and in proportion as these increase in number, so do the efforts to conceal the guilt of the parties increase the more rapidly.* Dr. William Acton stated at a meeting in Lpn- don, that '' From calculations based upon census tables, it had come out that of all the unmarried women of full age in the country (Great Britain), one in every thirteen or fourteen was immoral.^^ f In the year 1856, there were born in England and Wales, according to the statistics of the registrar general, 814,968 males, 800,897 females,— a total of some 615,845 children ; while of these, more than 21,- 000 males, and over 20,000 famales, or a total of forty-two thousand six hundred and fifty-one (42,651), were illegitimate; and in Scotland, no less than 2,761 illegitimate children were born during the year 1858.| The fate of multitudes of these children is horrible.
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