Offspring

The Department of Commerce, turning for a moment from the compilation of statistics on linseed oil and lumber, turned for a brief space to the very human subject of children. But as usual it had to deliver its findings in the form of statistics. It presented its results in maximums and minimums. Families with fathers 45-49 years old All Living Children Children Max. . . 8.1 6.6 Coal Miners Min. 3.3 3.0 Physicians Dentists, Surgeons Families with fathers 40-44 years old All Living Children Children Max. . 7.0 5.9 Coal Miners Min. 2.8 2.6 Architects Actors Inferences which may be drawn from these statistics : -- P: That men engaged in coal mining are more prolific than men engaged in other occupations.

P:That coal miners by average add 1.1 children to their families between the ages of 46 and 49. P: That about 3 out of 4 children born to coal miners before the age of 50 are living at the end of that period. P: That physicians, dentists and surgeons have the smallest number of children at the age of 50 when presumably their families are completed. P: That of the children born to physicians, etc., under 50 years of age, 10 out of 11 live to the end of that period.