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Age at Death.
Infant Mortality.
The number of deaths of infants under one
year of age was 120, under five 170, and
under 20,190. They respectively formed 24.2, 34.3 and
38.3 per cent, of all deaths, as compared with 25.1, 37.3
and 41.7 of the previous year, the percentage being
lower all round. There was an increase in the mortality
from Tubercular diseases at these ages, and a decrease
in nervous and respiratory diseases.
Senile
Mortality.
There were 40 deaths from old age unassociated
with disease, double the number of
the year before, 18 of these were of males and 22 of
females, they formed 8.0 per cent, of all deaths.
The total number of deaths that took place at 60 and
upwards was 173, 93 of these were at 70 and upwards,
and no less than 9 reached the age of 90 and upwards.
I give below a tabular statement of deaths at high ages
with the age at different periods and the sex of the
deceased, they formed 18.1 per cent of all deaths.

Parish Poor.
The figures relating to the sickness and
mortality of the poor of the parish are given in Table
X., they show very favourably as regards zymotic
diseases, from which no deaths occurred. In the other
classes, respiratory diseases formed a large proportion of