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With respect to the fatality at certain ages,
"The young, like leaves in Spring, were blown away ;"
For 220 perished under three months, 117 from three to six
months, 207 from six to twelve months, and 767 from one
year to five; making together the appalling number of 1311,
and forming 516 out of every 1000 deaths. If, again, we take
the population under five, 83.4 of each 1000 living never
reached that age. In all England the proportions are—"398
per 1000 of the deaths, and 73 6 per 1000 of the living."
"Infancy has to creep into life in the midst of foes, in
impoverished or poisoned air, or in rooms unfit for habitation,
and where it is thus cribbed, cabined, and confined, hecatombs
of young lives are lost, and the human blossom most
surely falls unexpanded." To home influences we must
therefore look to raise the vitality of infant life.
In the next five years and onwards through the succeeding
ten, 138 more children and 86 other young persons died.
Consequently, under the age of twenty 1535 of our numbers
living, or a percentage exceeding 60, yielded to remorseless
Death.
During the following twenty years, 297 left this busy
scene and departed each to an early grave.
Through the third and fourth vicenniads, 308 and 335
besides, having played their parts, journied hence to the
land unknown.
Finally, with 62 between eighty and a hundred years,
"the weary wheel of life at length stood still."
Among "the ancient of days," 152 had passed three score
and ten, 52 over four score, and 9 beyond four score and ten.
One nearly completed the cycle of one hundred years and
died beyond ninety-nine.
"The number living and the number dying at given intervals,"
are fully exhibited in Table 7. There, of each number