[From Train's History, 1845]

APPENDIX.-CHAPTER XXIII:

NOTE V.-PAGE 371.

THE STATE OF EDUCATION, TEMPERANCE, AND CRIME IN THE ISLE OF MAN. "

In the Isle of Man, with a population of 40,985, according to the census of 1831, there are

432

inhabitants to one

school.

1,242

,,

endowed school.

661

,,

imendowed do.

4,098

,,

bookseller.

6,831

public library.

40,985

,,

mechanics' institution.

190

,,

alehouse.

2,277

,,

person committed for crime annually.

3,153

,,

offender who could neither read nor write.

8,199

who could read or write imperfectly.

The above is compiled from facts, obtained by personal inquiry, and also from parliamentary and other documents. It is intended to shew the means of education, so far as schooling is concerned ; and the proportion of educated people, so far as that can be ascertained from the number of booksellers, libraries, and mechanics' institutions.-Extracted from Historical Tables, published by Pigot and Son, London and Manchester.


 

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