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Table I. in the Appendix exhibits the mortality
from each disease for the three years 1855, 1856, 1857,
side by side. The variations in the influences of
particular causes is thus seen at a glance In Table II.
the deaths during the same three years are summed up
to show the mortality at different periods of life.
The gross mortality of the three years is represented
by the following numbers, which are placed in chronological
order: 2998; 2719; 2955. The mortality of
1857 was therefore less, relatively, and even absolutely,
than in 1855; whilst it was absolutely greater than in
1856. If we assume the population to have been
123,000 in 1855, and that it has increased at the ratio
of 3 per cent. during 1856 and 1857, we find that the
death.rate was for 1855, 1 person to every 41 living, or
244 to 10,000 living, or 2.44 per cent.; for 1856 with
an estimated population of 126,000, the death.rate was
I person to every 46 living, or 216 to 10,000 living,
or 2.16 per cent.; for 1857 with an estimated population
of 130,000 the death.rate was 1 person to every 44
living, or 227 to every 10,000, or 2.27 per cent.
It appears that although the mortality was somewhat
higher in 1857 than in 1856 (the excess being
11 more deaths to every 10,000 living), the general
health of Shoreditch has been steadily improving. In
the 10 years from 1841 to 1850 the death.rate was