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From this table we arrive at the important result
that whilst in all other groups the difference
between 1862 and 1864 is in favour of 1862 by
eight cases, the increase of disease in Group V. is
115 cases, thus showing most clearly that acute
diseases of the chest were the real causes of the
high mortality of 1864.
AGE OF theSE WHO DIED.
I was still anxious however to ascertain whether
this mortality had fallen on children or adults, and
accordingly I have drawn up the following comparative
table of the ages of these who have died
in the past year. I theught it would be sufficient
for my purpose in this case, to divide the death of
each year into two groups, the one of death under
five years,

This table is very interesting, as shewing that
the whole death of 1864 fell on the lives of persons
above five years old, and that it was not infant
mortality but adult mortality we had to contend.