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years 1857 and 1858 were to prevail thourghout the
four quarters, in order to obtain a comparable annual
death-rate, we should find that in 1857 the deaths were
in the proportion of 1 to every 44 living, or 227 to
every 10,000 living, or 2.27 per cent.; and in 1858,
1 person died in every 43, or 233 to every 10,000 living,
or 2.33 per cent. In all London the annual mortality
for this quarter was 256 to every 10,000, or 2.56 per
cent. Examined by the light of these necessary corrections,
the larger aggregate number of deaths in the
first quarter of 1858 over the same period of 1857, is
shewn to indicate but a trifling proportional excess.
Compare the ages at death. At the end of Table I.
the deaths at different periods of life are cast up. 348
children died under the age of five years, being about
.40, a proportion nearly identical with that which
obtained in the first quarter of 1857.
Comparing Shoreditch with all London, we find
that in both cases .47 of the total-deaths occurred under
the age of 20 years. We find further, by Table II.,
that the gross mortality was as 1 to 21, and that from
zymotic diseases as 1 to 23 only, instead of as 1 to 20,
which expresses the estimated proportion of the populations
of Shoreditch and London. It deserves to be especially
noticed, that this is the first time that the