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Judicial statistics are used by both the sociol'st & the court admin'tor. What will satisfy one may be very unsatisfactory to the other. As this issue of The Annals (No. 328) is devoted to the problems of the courts, the discussion of statistics is centered around their use as a management tool for the court admin'tor. The history of federal judicial statistics is reviewed & a detailed description is given of the statistics that are now collected & published by the Admin've Office of the US Courts. The problems that are faced by the statistician who prepares the statistics & their interpretation & use by court admin'tors conclude the article. AA.

• Statistics not yet compiled, though evidence shows Philadelphia and Baltimore were hardest hit, which are thought to be the 'dirtiest cities' in the US, 'from a municipal sanitation viewpoint'• Disease afflicted the young and those in early middle age more heavily than those over 40, thought to be because the older people survived the epidemic of 1889• Death rate heavy in military camps, perhaps due to age? ; Newspaper article ; 6

Frontmatter -- Contents -- I. Statistics and Economics -- Book I. Consumption and Production -- Introduction -- Chapter II. Statistics of Consumption -- Chapter III. Population as Labour-Force -- Chapter IV. Land as Factor of Production -- Chapter V. Capital, Organisation, and Wealth -- Book II. Exchange -- Introduction -- Chapter VI. Prices -- Chapter VII. Money and Credit -- Chapter VIII. Transportation and Commerce -- Book III. Distribution -- Introduction -- Chapter IX. Wages -- Chapter X. Rent, Interest, and Profits -- Chapter XI. Competition and Association -- Chapter XII. Finance Statistics -- Chapter XIII. Social Distribution -- Index