AGES OF DEATH IN ENGLAND.
In the year 1865, for which the returns have recently been issued, 490,909 persons died in England. No less, remarks the Times, than 199,843 —lO per cent—were under five years of age. Nearly seventy in a thousand of the whole number of children under five years died in the course of the year —a mortality above the average, the weaklier children thus weeded out each year. The mortality of the next quinquiennial period is enormously less ; in 1805, the deaths between five and ten years of age were only 19,733, less than a tenth of the deaths on the first five years of life, and only about eight in 1,000 living. The third quinquiennial period, 10 to 15 years of age is the least mortal of all our lifetime ; the deaths in this period in 1865 were only 10,120, less than five in 1,000 of the living boys and girls of that age. In an equal number of children under five and of children between 10 and 15, a quarter of them die when only one of the latter dies. From the age of 15 upward the ratio of mortality never ceases to increase, Between 15 and 20 the deaths in 1865 were 13,484; and between 20 and 65, the working time of life, they were 115,051, the ratio increasing from less than eight per thousand (of that age living) in the first decennial, to more than 32 in the last. After 65 the ratio increases very rapidly. Between 65 and 75 the deaths in 1,000 were 45,002, and a larger proportion of the men of that age died in the year, than the proportion of male children under five who died in the year. In the next decennial period, 75 to 85, the ratio of mortality was doubled ; in the sudceeding decennial doubled again ; anc of the persons who were above 85 years old, nearly half died in the year. The number of persons dying in the year aged 76 or upwards was 47,876, making the whole mortality of the year 490,909, equal to the extinction of the entire population of Liverpool, or of such a county as Norfolk or Hampshire.
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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 198, 19 March 1868, Page 3
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367AGES OF DEATH IN ENGLAND. Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 198, 19 March 1868, Page 3
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