. 1928 ... 2114 ... 1589 ... 1501 ... 1755
Employers and Workshops Act,
1875 ... ... ... 224 ... 198 ... 185 ... 155 ... 154
Factory Acts ... ... 12 ... 2 ... 17 ... 11 ... 62
Licensing Acts offences 267 ... 263 ... 132 ... 254 ... 297
Drunkenness, drunk and
disorderly ... ... 2851 ... 2428 ... 2218 ... 2345 ... 2443
Lord's Day offences ... 46 ... 4 ... 1 ... 0 ... 0
Local Acts and Bye-laws,
offences against ... 4327 ... 4327 ... 4127 ... 3702 ... 3603
Malicious and wilful
damage... ... ... 187 ... 163 ... 163 ... 214 ... 225
Public Health Act, smoke,
etc. ... ... ... 317 ... 172 ... 104 ... 104 ... 161
Poor Law Acts, offences
against ... ... 203 ... 220 ... 251 ... 243 ... 325
Stealing or attempts
(larcenies) ... ... 1094 ... 1222 ... 1434 ... 1253 ... 1235
Vagrant Act, offences
under ... ... ... 614 ... 622 ... 624 ... 611 ... 783
Other offences ... ... 214 ... 174 ... 172 ... 211 ... 386

The following are the totals of the summary offences for the same
period, and the manner in which they were disposed of:--

Year. Cases. Convicted. Fined.
1878 16,610 12,767 8,940
1879 14,475 10,904 7,473
1880 13,589 9,917 6,730
1881 13,007 9,468 6,412
1882 13,788 10,171 6,372

Similar statistics for 1883 have not yet been made up, but a return up
to December 31 of that year shows that the number of persons committed
during the year to the Borough Gaol, or as it is now termed, her
Majesty's Prison at Winson Green, were 3,044 males and 1,045 females
from the borough, and 1,772 males and 521 females from districts, making
a total of 6,382 as against 6,565 in 1882. In the borough 734 males and
198 females had been committed for felony, 1,040 males and 290 females
for misdemeanour, 707 males and 329 females for drunkenness, and 243
males and 121 females for vagrancy. Of prisoners sixteen years old and
under there were 193 males and 21 females.

~Noteworthy Men of the Past.~--Though in the annals of Birmingham
history the names of very many men of note in art, science, and
literature, commerce and politics, are to be found, comparatively
speaking there are few of real native origin. Most of our best men have
come from other parts, as will be seen on lo