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TABLE OF THE CAUSES OF DEATH,
AT VARIOUS AGES,
Table: BIRTHS and DEATHS, &c.,forthe last Ten Years.
BIRTHS and DEATHS, &c.,forthe last Ten Years.
| 1867 | 1868 | 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 |
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| Births | 595 | 670 | 576 | 592 | 559 | 496 | 532 | 480 | 476 | 494 |
| Deaths | 561 | 631 | 594 | 620 | 526 | 504 | 545 | 511 | 503 | 418 |
| ,, under 5 years | 207 | 229 | 185 | 205 | 184 | 158 | 160 | 160 | 152 | 152 |
| ,, from 5 to 60 | 237 | 279 | 270 | 141 | 260 | 273 | 297 | 258 | 260 | 191 |
| „ over 60 years | 117 | 135 | 139 | 274 | 82 | 73 | 88 | 93 | 91 | 75 |
| „ from Smallpox | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ,, „ Measles | 6 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 5 |
| ,, ,, Scarlet Fever | 6 | 22 | 16 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 4 |
| „ „ Whooping Cough | 36 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 10 | 13 | 11 |
| „ ,, Diarrhoea | 11 | 28 | 17 | 20 | 19 | 23 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 18 |
| „ „ Fever | 9 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 4 |
| ,, „ Consumption | 64 | 78 | 67 | 80 | 69 | 75 | 77 | 64 | 73 | 51 |
| „ in Charing Cross Hospital | 61 | 131 | 123 | 122 | 150 | 139 | 150 | 157 | 150 | 78 |
| Inquests | .. | .. | .. | .. | 45 | 65 | 73 | • 60 | 57 | 54 |