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registered as having resulted from old age, unassociated
with disease; but no less than 52.22 of males and 30 of
females—took place above the age of 70, viz., from 70 to 75,
twenty.three; 75 to 80, fourteen; 80 to 85, twelve; at 86,
one; and at 87, two.
Social Position of the Deceased.—The great diminution
in the proportion of deaths borne by the labouring
classes to the whole of the other classes of the inhabitants
which was observable in the year 1877 has been more than
maintained during the past year, the proportion during the
latter having been 70 per cent, compared with 72 per
cent, of the previous year and with 76 per cent., the
average of the preceding ten years. This lessening of the
death.rate of the poorer classes in relation to the rest of
the population furnishes reliable evidence of the sanitary
progress which has been made.
Epidemic Diseases—their prevalence and fatality..