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Mortality at different Ages.—The deaths of children under one year
of age were 198, or equal to 19.5 per cent. on total deaths, and equal
to 13 per cent. on total births. At 65 years and upwards there were
326 deaths, and of these 96 reached ages between 70 years and 80, 45
between 80 and 90, and 11 attained to 90 years and upwards, the two
greatest ages recorded being those of a widow at 96 and a single lady
at 97. The superior longevity of the female sex is strikingly borne out
in these 152 cases recorded, for whereas 50 of these were males, the
females numbered 102, and of the 11 nonogenarians 9 were females,
mostly widows, whilst only two males struggled on to 91 and 92 years
respectively.

Special Causes of Death.—The deaths of parishioners from the seven
principal zymotic diseases, after correction for those of our parishioners
who died in hospitals outside our district, are equal to a ratio of 1.40.
The ratio for London was 2·77.