36.86 per thousand and the death rate 18.91 per thousand. In Prince Edward Island the birth rate was 24.45 per thousand and the death rate 12.26 per thousand. In the North-west Territories the birth rate was 24.98 per thousand and the death rate 7:32 per thousand,

Manitoba is the banner province, having the second largest birth rate and the second lowest death rate, the result being that the prairie province has the largest excess of births over deaths.

1417. The following table gives the births, deaths and marriages in each of the respective countries, 1893 :

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 1893.

RATE PER 1,000 OF THE POPULATION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, 1893.

1418. EXCESS OF BIRTHS OVER DEATHS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, 1887-92.

1419. The following table gives the number of children to a marriage in the undermentioned countries. The figures in most cases are for a series of years :

NUMBER OF CHILDREN TO A MARRIAGE IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES.

1420. For the punishment of criminals there are five penitentiaries in the Dominion, situated at Kingston, Ontario; St. Vincent de Paul, Montreal,

Que.; Dorchester, N.B.; Stony Mountain, Man., and New Westminster, B.C. The total number of persons confined in these five penitentiaries on the 30th June, 1895, was 1,277, of whom 1,249 were males and 28 were females.

1421. By three-year periods, since 1881, the following is the average o convicts in the penitentiaries :

AVERAGE OF CONVICTS IN PENITENTIARIES SINCE 1881.

of

There was an increase of 58 in the number of male convicts and a decrease of 4 in the number of female convicts, making a total increase 54 as compared with 1894.

1422. Considered in relation to the growth of population, the following table shows that in every group of 3,981 persons one was in the penitentiary in 1895. This is a considerably smaller proportion than the average of the period 1881-95, which is one convict to every 3,976 persons.

4,204 1893.

3.993

4,082 1894.

4.155

3,824

4,106

1895.

4,002

3,981

4,285

3,966

Average.

3.976

of the penitentiaries on the 30th June of each year, the number discharged 1423. The following tables give the number of convicts remaining in each

in each year, and the causes :

*Includes the number of convicts sent to asylums, transferred to other penitentiaries and reformatories, removed by order of the court and remission of sentences.

* Includes the number of convicts sent to asylums, transferred to other penitentiaries and reformatories, removed by order of the court and remission of sentences.

1424. The following table gives the offences for which persons were com

1 to the several penitentiaries for each year, from 1881 to 1895, both

lusive: