56. Byron C. Mathews, “A Study in Nativities,” Forum (January 1899): 621-32.


Analysis of the nativity of inmates and prisoners lodged in New York hospitals, asylums, workhouses, and prisons during a ten-year period extending from 1885 to 1895. There are three graphs and one table appended to the article. (The collection has another copy of this article in volume 21 [no. 6].)