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that nothing could more satisfactory or markedly
indicate the success of the sanitary procedure carried out
by the Board.
Infantile Calculated from the number of deaths of
Mortality.
infants under one year of age and th
number of births that occurred during the year the infantile
death-rate was 9.1 per cent, or 4.4 per cent below
the preceding decennial average. This low rate of
mortality of infants during the past year was, as might
be expected, due to the great reduction in the prevalence
and fatality of the diseases peculiarly obnoxious to infant
life,—the epidemic.
The proportion of the total mortality borne by infants
under 1 year of age was 25.9 per cent, the average
being 28.6 per cent; of children under 5 years of age,
36.6 per cent; the average being 39.5; of children under
10 years of age 38.8 per cent; All deaths under 20
formed 42.1 per cent, the average being 45.4
Mortality The deaths that occurred at 70 years of
age and upwards, formed over 15 per cent,
of all deaths. They numbered 70 and were 0 above the
corrected decennial average. The females as usual
exceeded the males in number and reached the highest
ages, as seen in the following table which shews the sex
and age of the deceased with the numbers at different
periods:—