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The other most noteworthy facts disclosed by the table
of mortality (No. 1 Appendix) are—
1. That the deaths of infants under 1 year amounted to
571, which is within 49 of one half of the entire mortality
at all ages.
2. That the aggregate mortality of infants under 1 year,
of children from 1 to 10 years, and of young persons from
10 to 20 years, was 981, which is 25 above one half of the
total number of deaths registered in the year.
3. That, of old age, without the registration of any
specific disease as the cause of death, there died during
the year 125 persons; that 302 other persons between 60
and 80, and 25 between 80 and 100 years, also died from
duly certified disease; that in the aggregate as many as
452 died within the District at advanced periods of fife,
i.e., between 60 and 100 years of age; and that three or
four of the oldest persons registered had at the time of
death reached the great age of 95 years.
4. That of the deaths enumerated in the table under
the four headings of social position, there occurred amongst
the labouring classes 1,184 and amongst the three classes
above them in the social scale, 753, thus giving a majority
to the former over the latter of 431 deaths.
5. That the number of deaths (36) of the nobility and
gentry, compared with the number that occurred of the
three other classes collectively, (1,901) is strikingly small,
and clearly indicates to what portions of the District the
efforts of the sanitarian should be principally directed.