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that the greatest strain upon a city life is during
childhood and mature age.
Let us now examine the distribution of the
deaths among the sexes. Of the 2,911 deaths in
the year, 1,509 were males and 1,402 females.
These are in the proportion of 1,075 of the former
to 1,000 of the latter. In the rest of London it is
only as 1,028 to 1,000; and in all England it is
1,033. At the ages of from 15 to 45, the City proportion
of deaths is as 1,180 males to 1,000 females:
in the whole of London it is but 1,108 to 1,000,
and in England only 933. In the 20 years which
follow (from 45 to 65) the males of the City die at
the rate of 1,280 for every 1,000 females. In
London, at these ages, the proportion is 1,077, and
in England 1,087; and lastly, at 65 and upwards
the male deaths in the City are only 650 to the
1,000 females, while in London they are 752, and
in England 888. It thus appears that there is an
undue proportion of males upon the death-roll,
and that it swells the mortality at every age up
to 65. In London the excess is arrested at 55, and
in England it stops at 15, to rise again at from 45
to 65. The maximum mortality of males in the
City is at from 35 to 55, and then it reaches to a
proportion of about 1,400 males to a 1,000 females.
In England the maximum is from 55 to 65, and
it never exceeds 1,087 to the 1,000 females.