Value of Human Life in Canada* 



175 



Census of 1851. 



All Canada 



Upper Canada 



Do. less 5 large cities. . . 



Toronto 



Hamilton 



Kingston 



Ottawa 



London 



Lower Canada 



Do. less 2 large cities . . . 



Montreal 



Quebec 



Total 

 population. 



1,842,265 



952,004 



880,737 



30,775 



14,112 



11,585 



7,760 



7,035 



890,261 



790,494 



57,715 



42,052 



Total 

 deaths 



Deaths per 

 1,000 inhabit's, 



Percentage of total 

 deaths. 



19,449 



7,775 



6,754 



474 



172 



185 



90 



100 



11,674 



8,632 



1,978 



1,064 



Under 

 5 years, 



10* 

 8 



n 



15 



12 



16 



Hi 



14 



13 



11 



34 



25 



43 

 42 

 41 

 52 

 47 

 56 

 48 

 49 

 43 

 39 

 43 

 69 



* rom Xy- 

 motic dis- 

 ease. 



25 

 23 

 23 

 19 

 42 

 8 

 29 

 24 

 26 

 28 

 15 

 37 



1841 



English Rural Dis 



Forty large towns 



Liverpool parish. 1840-2 



Bristol city " 



" Rural Dis... " 



11 U.Clifton.. " 



" L.Clifton.. " 



3,440,501 

 3,759,186 



66,575 

 96,999 



19 

 26 

 35 

 26 

 19 

 16 

 34 



54 

 42 

 33 

 25 

 51 



Massachusetts 1853-1857 

 15 cities in do. 



above 10,000 



inhabitants 

 "Whole State, less 



15 cities 

 Boston. . . 



Charlstown 



Fall River 



Springfield 



Rhode Island State. 1853 



, less > 



i. • • • ) 



1,132,369 20,905 



417,838 



714,531 



160,490 

 21,700 

 12,680 

 13,788 



118,722 



9,310 



11,595 



4,195 

 505 

 382 

 265 



1,126 



18 



22 



1"6 



26 

 23 

 30 

 12 

 9 



39 



46 



34 



47 

 48 

 54 

 47 



27 



28 



Confining our attention at present to the third column, that of 

 comparative mortality, we cannot but be surprised at the two fol- 

 lowing results : (1) the extreme healthiness of the country districts 

 generally, and of the cities in Upper Canada ; and (2) the extreme 

 mortality of Montreal, notwithstanding the beauty of its streets 

 and the substantial comfort of its mansions. It is natural to sup- 

 pose that some peculiar disaster that year befel the city, from 

 which the rest of the Province was exempt. Let us endeavour, 

 therefore, to see how far the same ratio holds in other years. 



In the Prothonotary's office are tabulated, year by year, the 

 number of deaths and the increase of population by birth ; Ottawa, 

 Vaudreuil, Two Mountains, Terrebonne, Leinster, Berthier, 

 Richelieu, St. Hyacinth e, Rouville, Vercheres, Chambly, Hunting- 

 don, Beauharnois, Missisquoi, Stanstead, and ShefFord, containing 

 a population of 428,588 souls, according to the census of 1851 ; 

 partly rural, partly gathered into towns ; subject to the same 



