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districts during the four seasons of the year.
Another informs you of the death-rate of the people
at different ages, and gives you an account of the
proportion of deaths from each of the most important
diseases. A third indicates the comparative
mortality in the City for the last nine years; and
the rest are expressive of the influence of sex,
occupation, and locality on the tenure of life.
At first you will observe that out of the City
population of nearly 130,000 souls, there died in the
course of the year 2,904 persons. This is at the
rate of 22.3 per 1,000 of the inhabitants, or it is
one death among every 45 of the living. With one
exception, this is the smallest proportion of deaths
upon record. It is just 9 per cent. less than the
general average, and it represents a saving of 286
lives in the course of the year. No doubt can be
entertained of the cause of this; for on looking back
over the death-roll of the City for the last nine
years—the time during which your sanitary measures
have been in operation—there will be seen a gradual
falling off in the proportion of deaths, until from a
yearly mortality of 3,763, it has been reduced to
2,904. This is a great result, and it will appear
still greater when you notice that it has been chiefly
effected in one district, namely, the Central. Here
the improvement has been to the extent of 13 per
cent. above the general average, and in some places