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The deaths returned as resulting from old age were also very
numerous, as 152 were registered against 116 in 1876.
The ages at death varied but little from the average for the
10 years 1866-75, except between 15 and 25, and 55 and 66,
when the mortality was greater. The death rate under 1 year
was decidedly satisfactory as compared with 1876, when it was
as high as 27.4 per cent. of the total deaths. In 1877 the per
centages were as follows, under 1 year 24.4 per cent. of all the
deaths, at 1-5 years 14.8, which is below the average of 1866-75,
and much below that for 1856-65. And at the age period of 5-15
years the same remark applies, so that the percentage of deaths
below 15 years of age was 44.2 in 1877, 43.5 in 1856-65, and
45.1 in 1866-75, which is fairly satisfactory. At 15-25 years of
age the mortality was 6.2 per cent.; at 25-32, 7.2 per cent.; at
35-45, 7.0 per cent.; at 45-55, 7.1 per cent.; at 55-65, 9.1 per
cent.; at 65-75, 9.5 per cent., which is rather below the average
of former years; at 75-85, 7.6 per cent., which is also rather
low; and above 85 years, 2.l per cent. The number of deaths
at different ages at 80 and above are as follows—18 at 80 years,
18 at 81-82 years, 17 at 82-83 years, 14 at 83-84 years, 9 at
84-85 years, 14 at 85-86 years, 7 at 86-87, 9 at 87-88 years,
and 6 at 89-90 years, making a total of 120 deaths of inhabitants
above 80 but under 90 years of age. The numbers above
90 at different ages were 9 between 90-91, 4 between 91-92,
3 between 92-93, 2 between 93-94, 1 between 94-95, 2 between
95-96, 1 between 98-99, 1 between 99-100, and 1 at the very
advanced age of 100 years and 13 days. This person, a female,
was born on the 10th of September, 1777, and died on September
23rd. 1877, so that this is another undoubted case of the extension
of life for a period exceeding 100 years. The proportion of
deaths at 80 years of age and above, has been slightly diminishing
since 1856 ; as in the ten years 1856-65, they amounted to
2.29; in 1866-75, 2.20; and in 1877, 2.10 per ccnt. of the
total deaths.