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years of age, the proportion of deaths in the City is
much larger than in the rest of England. Between
those ages the advantages are greatly in favour of a
City life.
As to the influence of occupation on the mortality,
I may remind you of what was said in my
last Report, for the experience of another year has
only confirmed the former observations. Taking
the mortality of the two years, the following are the
results:—of all males at twenty years of age and
upwards in the City of London, the deaths per
1,000 are 22.5; but the different classes of society
have contributed very unequally to the aggregate;
for butchers, poulterers, and fishmongers, shopkeepers,
and merchants have died at the rate of only
from fifteen to sixteen in the 1,000; while tailors
and weavers, shoemakers, printers, and compositors,
have succumbed at the rate of from twenty to
twenty-three per 1,000; wine-merchants, publicans
and waiters, porters and messengers, at the rate of
from twenty-four to twenty-six per 1,000; blacksmiths
and gasfitters, painters and glaziers, dyers,
bargemen and watermen, at from twenty-eight to
thirty in the 1,000; cabmen, draymen, ostlers, carmen,
and stable-keepers at the rate of thirty-one in
the 1,000; clerks, bakers, and needlewomen, at from
thirty-four to thirty-five in the 1,000; and lastly, the
harder working classes of carpenters, masons, and