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quence, for its high rate of death. "Inasmuch," says Mr.
Simon, "as the few days of these wretched children are
passed mainly within doors, so their high mortality constitutes
the readiest and least fallacious evidence of the unwholesomeness
of the dwellings in which they die."
Of the population living in the five succeeding years, there
perished 92, or to each 1000, 7'05. In England the rate is
8.96 Between the ages 10—20, which comprehend (at 10
—15) the healthiest years of life, the mortality was 61; or
of 1000, 2.93. Up to this period, that is, under 20 years,
1320 persons, or a per centage over 60, terminated their
career below. In the vicenniads 2 and 3, the dying numbered
239 and 275. Hence, 514 were swept away at "the
periods of life when the organs of the body have attained
their full growth and put forth their full strength; when the
physical organisation has acquired its utmost perfection;
when the senses, the feelings the emotions, are in the highest
degree acute, intense, and varied; when the intellectual
faculties, completely unfolded and developed, carry on their
operations with the greatest vigour, soundness, and continuity
; in a word, when the individual is capable of communicating
as well as of receiving the largest amount of the highest
kind of happiness."
As a relief to this premature decay, the deaths referable to
Age were 350; of which 290 occurred at 60—80 and 60 at
80—100 years. Among these, 3 only lived to 92, 93 and
94. It was stated in my Report on 1858, that the numbers
living in Bethnal Green in 1851 exceeded those of London
at all ages under 20 years; but were afterwards inferior at
every other age. When, however, weighed with England,
we have a surplus of children under 10; a less amount of
youths, more adults at 20—60; and fewer at every age
beyond