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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



[Dec. 



the mortality has increased. But as we know that the deaths for 

 Montreal are glaringly understated, we are obliged to doubt the 

 accuracy of the returns in other districts also. As the registers 

 of interments at cemeteries and churchyards must be always 

 accessible to the enumerators, it is hoped that the authorities will 

 take the necessary steps to insure accuracy at the next decennial 

 census. 



The following table has been calculated in order to estimate the 

 proportion borne between the interments at different ages, and the 

 number living at the same age. The "total deaths" are probably 

 much below the real numbers, but the ratio between the ages 

 may be sufficiently near the truth. 



3. Popidation and Deaths in Montreal at different ages : 

 from the Census of 1861. 



Under i year 



From 1 to 2 years. 



" 2 to 3 " . 

 3 to 4 " . 



" 4 to s " . 



o to s " . 



5 to 10 " . 



" 10 to 15 " . 



" 15 to 20 " . 



o to 10 



" 10 to 20 " 



" 20 to 30 " . . . 



" 30 to 40 " ... 



" 40 to 50 " 



" 50 to 60 " ... 



" 60 to 70 " 

 Above 70 and unknown. 



All Ages. 



Number 

 living. 



3,700 

 3,183 



2,821 

 2,609 



.15,196 

 10,363 

 g, 200 



25,559 



20,090 



18,174 



11,044 



7,24s 



4,476 



2,460 



1,272 



90,323 



Total 

 Deaths. 



,006 

 179 

 70 

 46 

 44 



1,345 

 86 

 37 



55 



Deaths per i 



,000 living Quebec. 



at the Do. 



same age, 



271 -3 

 56.2 



24-3 

 16.3 

 16.5 



tt-5 

 8-3 

 4.0 



5-5 



,43i 

 92 



119 

 89 

 5° 

 72 

 56 



129 



2,038 



55-9 

 4-5 

 6-5 

 8.6 

 6.9 

 16.0 

 22.8 

 101.4 



22.5 



161.9 

 48.8 

 33-2 

 17.9 

 11. 6 



Lower 

 Canada, 



less 

 4 cities. 



82.6 

 43-8 

 16.0 



7.2 



58.4 



(It was not judged 

 necessary to 

 complete the 

 table for adult 

 deaths in Que- 

 bec and the 

 rural districts.) 



It appears, therefore, that for every hundred children who die 

 under one year in Montreal, only sixty die in Quebec, and thirty 

 in the country districts. For every hundred who die under five 

 years in Montreal, sixty die in Quebec, and only thirty-six in the 

 country districts. 



B. Protonotary's Returns. 



It appears, by the rate of increase ascertained from the census 

 of 1861, that the population of Montreal City must have been 

 greater than that assumed in the table printed in the Canadian 

 Naturalist, 1859, p. 176, so far as the later years are concerned. 

 Subtracting that rate, viz., 3,260 annually, to find the population 



