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In Table E the life table based on the mortality of 1881-90 is compared with that based on the
mortality of 1861-70. It is surprising to find that while in 1861-70, of a million children born, 305,518
deaths occurred in the first 5 years of life, leaving only 694,482 survivors at age 5; in 1881-90 scarcely
more deaths occurred in the first 20 years of life, the deaths in the 20 years being only 309,495 per
million born, and the survivors at age 20 as many as 691,505. Looked at in a slightly different way
the figures show that of 1,000 children born, 61 more reached maturity in the second period than in
the first; and that through the whole of the working period of life an excess generally greater than
this amount was kept up. At age 65 the earlier table shows 260 survivors, and the later table 313
survivors per 1,000 born. It is true the excess has dropped to 53, but this is a larger proportional
excess than at any earlier age, amounting to no less than 20 per cent.; indeed, the proportional excess
steadily increases at each successive age period.

The life table for London in 1861—70 does not show the expectation of life at the various ages;
but as these are important for purposes of comparison they have now been computed for ages 5 and
upwards (Table F). The materials in the decennial supplement referred to are insufficient to calculate
with sufficient accuracy the years of life lived between birth and age 5, according to the life table.