The total of births thus recorded was 345; of children then living 159; of miscarriages 75.

Old Quasheba and Betty Madge had each borne fifteen children, and sixteen other women had borne from six to eleven each.

On the other hand, seventeen women of thirty years and upwards had had no children and no miscarriages.

The childbearing records of the women past middle age ran higher than those of the younger ones to a surprising degree.

Perhaps conditions on Worthy Park had been more favorable at an earlier period, when the owner and his family may possibly have been resident there.