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calculation, we find that by applying the English Life Table to
those numbers the death-rate amongst the males would be 12.2.0
and amongst the females 12.26, making a total death-rate of
24.46 in every 1000 of the population; so that there were not
more than 2 deaths per 100,000 population than there would
have been had the population of England been constituted
according to the proportions enumerated in the English Life
Tables. In Hackney the difference between the number of
females and males is greater, as at the last Census there were
560 females and only 440 males in each 1000 population, but
as there were only 200 females under 5 years of age in excess of
males at that age, when by far the greatest difference in the
death-rate occurs, and as the greatest variation in the relative
number of the sexes exists between 20 and 40, when the difference
in the mortality is least, the divergence arising from this cause in
Hackney is but small, viz., 2.9 deaths per 10,000 population.
As regards age the variation is greater, because of the very
small death-rate amongst persons between 5 and 45 years of age
as compared with other periods of life. Thus the annual
mortality per 1000 living at each of the different ages in 1861-71

was as follows:—In England, under 5 years, 68.60; between 5
and 15, 6.2; between 15 and 25, 7.3; between 25 and 35, 9.8;
between 35 and 45, 12.7; between 45 and 55, 17.3; from this