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deaths of infants under 1 year of age amounted to 27.8
per cent, the average being 23.9 per cent; of children
under 5 years of age 46.5 per cent, the average being
37.9; and of children under 10 years of age 48.1 per
cent, the average being 40.6 . All deaths under 20 years
formed 50.2 per cent, the average being 43.8. This high
mortality of the young was mostly the result of the epidemics
of Whooping-Cough and Measles, and diseases of
the Breathing-Organs, probably to a great extent derived
therefrom.
Senile There was an increase in the number of deaths
Mortality. at high ages. 89 deaths, or 12.5 per cent, having
occurred at 70 years of age and upwards, the
corrected average being 77. 25 of the number were
recorded as having resulted from Age unconnected with
disease. As usual the females by far exceed the males
in number and longevity, the highest age, 96 years, being
attained by a female.