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estimated by Dr. Farr at 280 per 10,000. The death.
rate of all England in 1857 was rather less than 2.20
per cent., that of the metropolis generally about 2.31
per cent. giving a slight life.balance in favor of Shore.
ditch as compared with London.
Duration of Life. Table II. shows that 779 deaths
took place under the age of 1 year; and 615 above 1
year and under 5, or 1394 under 5 years; being .47 or
rather less than one half. If this infantile mortality is
contrasted with that of 1855 and 1856, it exhibits a
deterioration of 01. It might, however, on well established
hygienic laws, be anticipated that the continuing
concentration of the population would tend to greater
destruction of infant life.
Pursuing the analysis into the particular causes of
death, we find that the diseases may be arranged in the
order of destructiveness as follows: 1st. Phthisis, destroying
371 persons; 2nd. Bronchitis, especially fatal
to persons in advanced years, 243; 3rd. Pneumonia.
the scourge of infants in cold weather, 235; 4th. Fever,
184; 5th. Tubercular or Scrofulous Diseases, other than
Phthisis, 171; 6th. Hooping Cough, 162; 7th. Diarrhoea
146; 8th. the infirmities of Old Age, which a perfect
sanitary condition would raise to the first place, 133;
9th. Convulsions, and 10th. Atrophy, numbering respectively
107 and 88, two indefinite heads, under which