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Between 25 and 35 years of age. Phthisis is the
most frequent cause of death at this age, women
being the more numerous victims. Fever is less fatal;
diarrhoea and local diseases more so. More women die
from childbirth; this being the period in an Englishwoman's
life during whicli most children are born.
Between 35 and 45 years of age. Deaths from
fever are generally fewer at this age than at any other.
Phthisis is still the most fatal of the constitutional
diseases. Deaths from local diseases have increased.
There is little difference in the rate of mortality
between the sexes, the difference (more particularly in
London) being in favour of women, amongst whom,
after the age of 39, a lower death-rate thenceforward
prevails.
Between 45 and 55 years of age. More men die
than women. Fever is fatal to a certain number of lives.
The various organs of the body, feeling the effects of
prolonged tension, give way, and deaths from local
diseases greatly exceed those from all other causes.
Phthisis takes its toll at this age of more men than
women, as do other pulmonary diseases owing their
origin to the dust and bad air of workshops. Many
women succumb to cancer—a disease of advancing
years chiefly.
Between 55 and 65 years of age. Constitutional and
local diseases occasion more than three-fourths of the
deaths at this period. Cancer claims the lives of more
women, and brain affections of more men. From heart
disease, from which not a few may have suffered many
years, from bronchitis and disorders of the urinary organs,