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above par in 35 out of the 52 weeks in Whitechapel, in 30 in
London, in 28 in Shoreditch, in 24 in Bethnal Green, in 16
in Poplar, and in 10 in Hackney.
For the entire Parish the mean age at death was 22.64
years, and the mean lifetime 36.14. The Gentry lived 47.42
years, the Tradesmen 24.64, and the Artisans 20.98 years. In
adult life the 1st class lived 62.20 years, the 2nd 53.33, and
the 3rd 54.06. In all England the mean age at death is 29,
and of those who pass the age of 20—60 years. Thus, in the
one case we lost 5¾ and in the other 6¼ years of life. Our
differences are illustrated in Tables 3 and 4.
With respect to the influence of the Seasons, 640 deaths,
or 26.20 per cent. of the mortality occurred in the Winter;
581 or 23.79 per cent. in the Spring; 603 or 24.69 in the
Summer; and 618 deaths or 25.30 per cent. in the Autumn.
The relative fatality in each Quarter is exhibited in Table 2,
side by side with the Causes of, and Ages at, Death. That
Table also recounts the deaths in 1857, and facilitates the
comparison of one year with the other. It illustrates, for
example, that the mortality by Fever, Erysipelas, Dropsy,
and Consumption was nearly alike, that it was higher
by the first three epidemics, by Child-birth, Puerperal and
Rheumatic Fevers, by Brain, Heart and Lung affections, by
Premature Birth and Old Age; and was lower by Whooping
Cough, Diarrhoea, Hœmorrhage, Tabes, Diseases of the Organs
of Digestion and Kidneys, and by Violent and non-specified
Deaths. Specially, the death percentages in the several classes
were in the 1st, or Zymotic, 29; in the 3rd, or Tubercular,
17.48; in the 4th, or Brain, 10.36; in the 5th, or Heart, 1.8;
in the 6th, or Lung, 18.8; in the 7th, or Digestive, 5.7; in the
16th, or Violent class, 3.3; and in all the other groups, 13.2.
Distributed according to the new classification, which consists
of 5 classes only, 728 deaths belong to the Zymotic class,
479 to the Constitutional, 850 to the Local, 298 to the