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under 5 years of age; and upwards of 44*5 per cent, to
persons under 20 years of age. 27 deaths were registered
as having occurred from old age unassociated with
disease, but no less than 63, or upwards of 12 per cent, of
all deaths, were recorded at 70 years of age and upwards;
viz., from 70-75, twenty-nine; 75-80, seventeen; 80-85,
twelve; 85-90, four; and one attained the age of 92.
Social Position in relation to Deaths.—The proportion
per cent, of deaths from general, as well as from
epidemic disease in relation to the social position of the
deceased is shown in the subjoined table:—
SOCIAL POSITION.
General Disease.
Epidemic Disease.
Nobility and Gentry 2.96 0.00
Professional Class, Merchants, &c. 3.16 6.58
Middle and Trading Classes,
Clerks, &c 19.92 10.53
Industrial and Labouring Classes 73.96 82.89
100.00 100.00
The per-centage of deaths from general disease
ocurring amongst the labouring classes was about the
average amount, but that from epidemic disease, as
might be expected from the prevalence of Small-pox,
the fatality from which, like that of other diseases of
the kind, falls with greatest severity upon the working
classes, was very considerably above the average.
Epidemic Diseases—their prevalence and fatality.—
The following table shows the deaths which have resulted
from the seven principal Epidemic Diseases during the
past and ten preceding years, and the relation which
they bore to the deaths from all causes:—