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young children, and after that (as compared with
the number living at that age) the mortality of
persons upwards of sixty.
620 children died in their first year, 391 between
one and five, and 76 betwen five and ten. There
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were, therefore, no less than 1087 deaths in the first
ten years of life. In the second decade (that is,
from ten to twenty) there were only 84; in the
third, 139; in the fourth, 156; in the fifth, 149;
in the sixth, 179; in the seventh (or between sixty
and seventy), 215; in the eighth (or between seventy
and eighty), 214; in the ninth (or between eighty
and ninety), 89; and from ninety upwards, 10. Of
the latter two are stated to have occurred at the
ages of 103 and 105 respectively.
Forty-eight deaths were due to accidental or
other forms of violence, and 179 either to premature
birth or to congenital weakness. Among the latter
were included 11 newly-born children found dead in
various parts of the parish—3 in Dulwich, 1 in
Camberwell, 2 in Peckham, and 5 in St. George's.
12 deaths were caused by child-birth, of which only
one was ascribed to puerperal fever. Erysipelas,
pyaemia, and carbuncle destroyed 13 persons, and