respective ages of all who had died in a period of ten years; viz. from 1813 to 1822 inclusive. By means of the results thus obtained, Mr. Rankin was enabled to calculate the expectations of life at the several ages in this locality.
| TABLE 1. | |
| Total of Burials in the City of Bristol and Bedminster, from 1813 to 1822 inclusive. | |
| All Saints, Christ Church, and Cathedral, | 279 |
| St. Augustine, | 1183 |
| St. James, | 1884 |
| St. John, | 137 |
| St. Mary Radcliff, | 1330 |
| St. Mary-le-Port, | 128 |
| St. Michael, | 1109 |
| St. Nicholas, | 286 |
| St. Paul, | 851 |
| St. Peter, | 259 |
| St. Philip and Jacob, | 2437 |
| St. Stephen, | 352 |
| St. Thomas, | 268 |
| St Werburgh, | 54 |
| St. Mary (Bedminster,) | 1265 |
| Temple or Holy Cross, | 1903 |
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| Total from Parish Registers, | 13670 |
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| Total from Dissenters' and Private Burial Grounds | 6896 |
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| Grand Total in 10 years, | 20566 |
If we divide the whole mortality stated in the above table by 10, in order to obtain the average annual number of deaths, and make the result the divisor of the population[1] the ratio of mortality will be about 1 in 45. In London the ratio is 1 in 40; in Liverpool the same; in Birmingham 1 in 43.
- ↑ The population of Bristol and the Out-parishes, is 92434.
