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1,000 deaths, indeed, the proportion at different ages
was as follows:—
Proportion of Deaths at different ages in every
1,000 Deaths.
Ages.
Eastern
Division
of City.
Western
Division
of City.
Central
Division
of City.
Entire
City.
Under 5
411
370
214
326
From 5 to 20
65
61
49
58
„ 20 „ 40
110
106
150
124
„ 40 „ 60
182
174
231
199
At 60 and over
232
289
356
293
Total
1,000
1,000
1,000
1,000
So that of every 1,000 deaths in each of the principal
divisions of the City, the largest proportion of deaths
among children (411) was in the Eastern District,
and the smallest (214) in the Central; whereas at
20 and upwards the proportions are reversed. These
results are mainly due to the circumstance that there
is a larger proportion of adult life in the Central
Division of the City than in the Eastern. To some
extent, however, the high mortality of children in
the Eastern and Western Districts is caused by the
less perfect sanitary condition of those places; for
if it be tested by the death-rate of infants at less
than a year old, it will be found that of every 1,000
children born in the Western Division of the City
192 die before they are one year old, in the Eastern
Division 179 die, and in the Central only 147—the
proportion for the whole City being 173 per 1,000.
This is very nearly the average (174) for the last
10 years, but it is a good deal above the average