This is the more worthy of notice as the number of 

 females annually dying in the Society is greatly in excess of 

 males. 



Table 13 shows the number of deaths and aggregate of 

 years attained by those dying in the nineteen specified towns 

 and elsewhere, also the average age at death; excluding 

 children under one year. London, Birmingham, Cork, and 

 Darlington appear to be healthy towns; the number dying 

 in some of the other towns is too small to enable us to judge 

 of their respective healthiness except in the aggregate. 



Table 14 shows the average length of life in males and 

 dee, town and country. It appears that members of the 

 Society of Friends, including both sexes, live on the average 

 to the age of 51 years i month, which exceeds by 10 years 

 the average of the people of England generally. The 

 women however live longer than the men — the age of men 

 ; 48 years 1 month, and that of women 53 years 4 months. 

 The difference between town and country is remarkably great, 

 and of course in favour of the country. The average length 

 of life in towns is 44 years 8 months, in the country 54 years 

 3£ months ; so that the life of a person in the country is ten 

 years longer or one-fourth more than that of one in a town, 

 that is to say, if 100 persons were born in the town and 100 

 in the country, for each hour the former live the latter will 

 live an hour and a quarter. When it is considered that the 

 1,659 persons whose deaths have been recorded in the towns, 

 were as cleanly and temperate, as well fed and as warmly clad 

 as their mote fortunately situated friends who lived on the 

 average ten years longer than they, attention is immediately 

 turned to the polluted air of towns, to the effluvia and noxious 

 gases arising from decaying animal and vegetable refuse, 

 sewers, graveyards, and cesspools, to the sulphurous acid, 

 carbonic acid, carbonic oxide, and carbon emanating from 

 inineys of our manufactories, and to imperfect ventila- 

 id around our houses. 



