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In such places as Plumfree Court and the worst
districts of the East and West London Unions, it
mounts up to 7 per cent. Again, while the common
infantile diseases are fatal generally only to the
extent of 8'5 per cent., in the City Unions they
reach to 21 per cent.; and then with regard to
consumption, this does not ordinarily contribute to
more thon 15 per cent, of the deaths, though in the
West London Union its proportion is 21 per cent.
Finally, as a subject of much interest, I have
endeavoured to ascertain how the several trades and
occupations have influenced the mortality of the
people. Here, however, I have not had the means
of calculating very precisely the death.rate of each
particular class; and the results of my investigation
must therefore be looked upon only as approximations
to the general truth, and as evidences of
what is yet to be done in this department of state
medicine; nevertheless, they will show you that the
mortality of particular classes is considerably above
the average.
I stated, but just now, that the expectancy of life
among young men generally at twenty years of age,
was up to sixty. You will perceive that this is
nearly the expectancy in London with shopkeepers
and domestic servants; for the mean age at which
they die is 58.8 and 58.6. Butchers, poulterers, and
fishmongers live to the age of 53.8. Carpenters,