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viduals between 5 and 20 years, 184; of adults from 20 to
60, 546 ; and of those beyond 60, 352. In the first of these
divisions there died_at less than 3 months, 250; from 3 months
to 6, 137; from 6 months to 12, 220; at 1—2, 312; at 2—3,
128; at 3—1, 87; and at 4—5 years, 57. Out of this infantile
mortality " the functions of whose lives remain wholly
unfulfilled", the proportion dying under 1 year was to the
births as 1 to 6.7. Below 5 years, of 100 living 7.567 per cent.
or 1 out of every 13.21 infants died; while in 1838—44 the
ratios were 8.565 per cent, or 1 out of every 11.67. As the
mortality of these little children " increases as the social condition
of the parents sinks" the advantage would be great were
Day Nurseries instituted "where," says Mr. Roberton," women
working from home may deposit their infants in the morning,
return to suckle them at certain hours, and take them home
again in the evening," or where " if the child be weaned, it
may be fed and amused, or if old enough instructed." In the
second division, 109 were cut off at 5—10, and 75 at 10—20
years: thus in the first vicenniad the death loss numbered
1375 and formed a per centage of 60*4. Among adults " the
efficient part of the population" whose deaths 11 in a political
point of view are of great importance" 250 were swept away
at 20—40 and 296 at 40—60 years. If in the words of a
former Report—' to die between the ages 20—60 be to perish
prematurely, then in addition to our large infantile loss' out
of 2273, 546 ' were untimely deaths'. Those who lived over
threescore and ten aud reached "the broken arches of the
bridge" amounted to 149, those beyond fourscore to 48, those
above ninety years to 8; of whom 2 attained the age of 95.
Respectively the Septuagenarians constituted 1 in 15 deaths;
the Octogenarians, 1 in 57 ; the Nonagenarians, 1 in 284.
By Table 8 the per centages of the dying to the living are
given at seven ages and contrasted with the Table in 1858.