Note 62 — II. ITS FREQUENCY, AND THE CAUSES THEREOF.

Local exceptions to this general rule will of course be found to exist, as is always the case with laws based on mere statistics, especially, as here, where reports to the registry are liable, for evident reasons, to be withheld. Thus it appears from Dr. Jewell’s collections (this Journal, March, 1857, p. 277,) that the proportion of still-births in Philadelphia was, in 1856, only 1 in 913 to the total population, and 1 in 20.1 to the general mortality, against which evidence must be placed that which we subsequently furnish from Prof. Hodge.