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It will be seen that the total number of deaths included in
this table is 795. In the warm period there were 127 deaths
under 5 years of age, or 40.1 per cent, of the whole; 60 or 18.9
per cent, between 5 and 35 years of age; 74 or 23.3 per cent,
between 35 and 65 years old; 31 or 9.8 per cent, between 65 and
75, and 25 or 7.9 per cent, of persons who were 75 years old or
more. In the cold period there occurred 152 or 3.18 per cent, of
the total number of deaths in children under 5 years of age; 86
or 17.9 per cent, of persons who were more than 5 and less than
35 years of age; 115 or 24.1 per cent, of persons who were
between 35 and 65 years old; 61 or 12.8 per cent, of those who
were between 65 and 75 ; and no less than 64 or 13.4 per cent,
of inhabitants who were above 75 years old. The rate of
mortality at various groups of ages varied very much, as a much
smaller percentage of children under 5 years and a slightly
diminished rate for those who were between 5 and 35, but an
excess in the percentage of deaths in all the groups of ages above
35, especially amongst old persons. These comparisons apply to
the total percentages only, because, as previously stated, the
mortality was in excess during the cold period at all ages. The
effect of the cold is, however, best shown by calculating the
percentage of deaths at each age in the cold to 100 in the warm
weather, the numbers being compared with one another and not
percentages calculated in the totals.
It then appears that there were 119 deaths in the cold
period of children under 5 years to 100 in the warm; that there
were 143 deaths of persons between 5 and 35 years of age during
the cold period against 100 in the warm; 155 in the cold to 100
in the warm period of those who were between 35 and 65 years
of age; the much larger proportion of 196 of persons between
05 and 75 in the cold to 100 in the temperate period; and no
less than 256 of inhabitants aged 75 and upwards in the cold
period to 100 in the temperate weeks. This increase in the rate
of mortality of inhabitants of this district, and more especially