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By the entire Epidemic Group 486 of our children died
under the age of five; 108 of our young persons from five to
twenty years; 35 of our adults between twenty and forty;
31 others between forty and sixty; 28 between sixty and
eighty; and two more after their eightieth year.
Next in succession follow 65 deaths from causes in the
second class; among which 19 are ascribed to Cancer and
Mortification, 12 to Haemorrhage, or "the effusion of blood,"
and 23 to Dropsy, or "the effusion of serum."
Out of the 442 "Constitutional or Specific Diseases" of
Class 3,—14 individuals sank from Scrofula, 140 from Mesenteric
Disease, 34 from Water on the Brain, and 254 from
Consumption. At different periods Consumption was fatal
to 56 in the first twenty years, of whom 20 did not reach the
age of five; to 132 in the second vicenniad, to 55 in the
third, and to 11 in the fourth. In our social position, Consumption
cost the Gentry 1 death in 6, the Tradesmen
1 in 10, and the Artizans 1 in 10 too. Its ratio with us was
1 out of every 9.9 deaths, its ratio in London 1 in 8 6. From
our population there was 1 in 419 persons, and from that of
London 1 in 369 persons taken away
Pure Air, and plenty of it, is the grand prophylactic of
this destructive disease. Without it, like the monkeys of
old in the unventilated rooms of the Zoological Gardens, we
"rot and rot, and drop and drop."
By Affections of the 4th Class, the first of "the eight
principal Organic Systems," 244 persons closed their earthly
account. Convulsions hurried away 88, Apoplexy 32, and
Paralysis 55. 115 had not completed their fifth year, and
7 only had passed fourscore.
Aneurism and Diseases of the Heart cut short 60 lives.
During the last five years their average has been 58.
From Pulmonary Diseases there perished 421, or one
among us out of every 253. They form a sixth of all who