Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Advertisement V
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction
5. Chapter I. Statistics in the Service of Sociology 1
6. Chapter II. The Criteria of Statistics 17
7. Chapter III. Method of Study 29
8. Book I. Demographic
9. Chapter IV. Sex, Age, and Conjugal Condition 36
10. Chapter V. Births 65
11. Chapter VI. Marriages 93
12. Chapter VII. Deaths 128
13. Chapter VIII. Sickness and Mortality 154
14. Book II. Social
15. Chapter IX. Social Condition 181
16. Chapter X. The Infirm and Dependent 210
17. Chapter XI. Suicide 238
18. Chapter XII. Crime 259
19. Book III. Ethnographic
20. Chapter XIII. Back and Nationality 289
21. Chapter XIV. Migration 314
22. Book IV. Environment
23. Chapter XV. Population and Land (Physical Enyironment). 341
24. Chapter XVI. Population and Civilization (Social Environment) 361
25. Index by Topics 383
26. Index by Countries 395