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and upwards during the fourteen years \£42-5£ recorded, 

 and the average age at death of these is contrasted with the 

 deaths of Friends in the remainder of Great Britain and 

 Ireland during the same period. The number of children 

 dying under one year has been divided in the proportion 

 of the recorded deaths between one and five years; still the 

 chance of inaccuracy on this ground is small, and cannot 

 seriously affect the results. 



Table I shows the deaths of males at various ages in the 

 19 selected towns — London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manches- 

 ter, Liverpool, Leeds, Preston, Bradford, Newcastle, Sunder- 

 land, North and South Shields, Darlington, Hull, Belfast, 

 Clonmel, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, and Waterford — total 

 deaths, 726. Not a single death is recorded at 95 or up- 

 wards. 



Table 2 shows the deaths of females in the same towns — 

 total 933. Three women died at 95 and upwards. 



Table 3 shows the deaths of men in Great Britain, and 

 Table 5 in Ireland, exclusive of the nineteen towns before 

 enumerated; showing, respectively, 1,240 and 62 deaths. 

 Three men died at 95 and upwards. 



Tables 4 and 6 show the deaths, as above, of females; 

 being 744 in England, 191 in Ireland. Nine women died 

 at 95 or above. It would thus appear that town life is 

 unfitted for very old persons, and that there are more aged 

 women than men ; but as those who attain so great an age as 

 ninety-five are very few, and the Society of Friends is small, 

 not much reliance can be placed upon these deductions. 



Tables 8 and 9 are summaries of the deaths of Friends, 

 males and females, in the whole country, and present the 

 following peculiarities. For every 100 boys and 100 girls 

 born there died 14 boys and 8 girls under five years, the 

 deaths of boys thus greatly preponderating. From the ages 

 of 5 to 14 the deaths are nearly equal ; from 15 to 24 there is 



