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The number of deaths in each of the four seasons
of the year is represented in Table I. of the
Appendix. The proportions are as follows:21
per cent. of all the deaths occurred in the summer
quarter, 24 per cent. in the spring, 25 in the
autumn, and 29 in the winter. The high mortality
of the last-named season is due, not merely to the
trying influences of the weather, but also to the
circumstance that it is the season when the poor
congregate in the City, and when the evils of overcrowding
are at their worst; besides which, the
state of the weather does not permit of those sanitary
operations which are so largely employed in
the summer and autumn.
Table I. also informs you that, of the 2,883 deaths
in the year, 1,503 were of males, and 1,380 females.
The numbers being in the proportion of 1,089 males
to 1,000 females. In all England the proportion is
about 1,030 males to 1,000 females.
Again, of the 2,883 deaths, 1,088 (or rather more
than 37 per cent. of the whole number) were of
children under five years of age, and of these 533
were less than a year old; a sixth part, therefore,
of all the children born perished in the course of the
first year of their age; 203, or nearly 7 per cent.
of the deaths were of young persons of from 5 to
20 years of age; 376, or about 13 per cent., were