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Table 5.-Shewing the proportion of deaths, at all ages, in the eastern and western divisions, and in the whole district; also at Carlisle, the county of Worcester, Landsend in Cornwall, Glasgow, and St. Petersburgh; the whole deaths being assumed to be 10,000 in each place.^[1]

	Birth to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	100 to
Eastern Division	2824	646	926	670	587	746	1039	1242	1069	196	52
Western Division	3164	783	956	647	561	826	974	1178	777	129	0
Whole District	3010	722	942	657	573	790	1003	1207	908	162	23
Carlisle	3569	384	462	576	671	871	1244	1440	730	98	7
Co. of Worcester	3937	664	779	638	609	643	906	1052	669	90	7
Landsend	3685	551	740	581	640	735	1050	1206	725	56	1
Glasgow	4224	421	845	952	1008	888	804	621	203	26	2
All England	3906	608	781	675	663	700	915	1039	624	85	4
St. Petersburgh	3205	987	1962	1365	1006	621	434	289	100	26	0

From the above table—deduced from the details obtained of the actual deaths at all ages in the several parishes included in table 4—it appears that

1. Mr. Villermè, who has laboriously studied the results afforded by the English tables of population, points out the fact that the atmospheric conditions of low marshy districts are very destructive of the lives of young children. In the Isle of Ely, which may be regarded as a specimen of the marshy districts of England, more than one-third of the children born, die before the end of the second year, and one half in the same district die before the end of the fifteenth year of their age. Now this statement may he contrasted with the statistical details of a hilly locality, in the eastern division of the Malvern district, one-third of the children born do not die until after the tenth year, and one-half do not die until after the thirtieth year.—The following table will exhibit this contrast at decennial periods.

   Table shewing the proportion of deaths, at the under-mentioned ages, in the eastern division, and the Isle of Ely.

   	Birth to 10	10 to 20	20 to 30	30 to 40	40 to 50	50 to 60	60 to 70	70 to 80	80 to 90	90 to 100	100 to
   Eastern Division	2824	646	926	670	587	746	1039	1242	1069	196	52
   Isle of Ely	1731	597	765	594	596	652	775	834	411	42	3