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amount of mortality occurring amongst the industrial
classes is seen to have taken place during the past year.
This result forms a reliable indication of improvement
effected amongst them.
1877 1878 1879 1880 1881
Nobility and Gentry 2.5 1.62 3.3 3. 4 2.71
Professional Class 6. 2 5. 08 5. 9 5.5 5.12
Middle Class 18. 2 18.10 17.4 16. 9 19. 00
Industrial Class 73.1 75.20 73.4 74.2 73.17
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Sickness and Mortality amongst the Parochial
Poor.—The diminution in the amount of sickness and
mortality amongst the parochial poor observable in 1880
continued to a greater extent during the past year. The
total cases of sickness during the latter were 2,355, and
the resulting deaths 100; in the preceding year the
total cases of sickness were 2,681, and the deaths 131.
The mortality of the past year was upwards of a fifth
part below the average; the proportion of deaths to
cases treated was 4.2 per cent., and in the year preceding
5.0 per cent. (nearly). The numbers relating to the
several sub-districts are shown in Table V., Appendix.
They fully corroborate the indications already set forth
of the lowness of the amount of sickness and mortality
of the district during the past year.
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