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the present high mortality among young children, particularly from
those diseases which are usually treated at home, namely, Measles,
Whooping-Cough, and Diarrhœa. That the fatality of each of these
diseases among children under 5 years of age named under these
conditions is out of all proportion to the gravity of the disease is
evident from the rarity of fatal issue in hospitals or among the
upper classes. When, however, one considers the insanitary
surroundings, the vitiated atmosphere, the damp, the smoke, the
draughts, and the impossibility of anything like decent living, to
say nothing of nursing, in such places, it is even surprising that
the mortality is not higher."
SENILE MORTALITY.
Of these 260, 90 were between 65—70 years of age.
124 „ „ 70-80 „
43 „ „ 80-90 „
3 „ „ 90-100 „
As we have already remarked, death claims infants mostly in the
summer and the aged mostly in the winter. For example, in the
third quarter (i.e., July-September), there were 166 infant deaths,
but only 46 deaths of persons above 65.