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REPORT — 1842. 



for the last three years in Edinburgh, amounted to 0*070 per cent, of the 

 population, they amounted to 29*74; per cent, of the whole deaths by fever. 



In Glasgow, while the deaths by fever, at the same age, for the last five 

 years, amounted to 0*129 per cent, of the population, they amounted to 29*05 

 per cent, of the deaths by fever, being still very nearly in the same propor- 

 tion to the whole deaths by fever as in Edinburgh. Again, in Edinburgh, 

 while the deaths by fever, above twenty years of age, during the last three 

 years, amount to 0*165 per cent, of the population, they amount to 70*25 per 

 cent, of the whole deaths by fever. And in Glasgow, while the deaths by 

 fever, above that age, amount to 0*316 per cent of the population, they 

 amount to 70*94- per cent, of the whole deaths by fever. 



By referring to the tables for the other towns, it will be perceived that the 

 proportions of the deaths by fever, at the different ages, to the whole deaths 

 by fever, are not so very close to each other as they are in Edinburgh and 

 Glasgow ; yet the difference is not great, and may be accounted for partly by 

 the defective state of the registers, as well as by some local circumstances 

 which cannot yet be clearly traced. 



We have had time only to construct tables similar to those immediately 

 referred to, for a few of the fever cases, exhibited in the Reports of the Regis- 

 trar-General for towns in England. As those we have constructed, however, 

 6how very striking results for Manchester and Liverpool, we here insert the 

 results corresponding with those above quoted. 



Proportions of Deaths by Fever, at different ages, during 1839*. 



The uniformity of the following proportions of deaths by the several dis- 

 eases at certain ages, to the whole deaths by these diseases, is still more 

 striking, although the amount of deaths, when compared to the population, 

 was very different. 



Proportion of Deaths by Measles, at different ages, during 1839f- 



* The data from which these proportions are obtained will be found in the Third Annual 

 Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England, see pages 70 

 and 74. It will be observed, that the deaths by remittent fever and typhus are included in 

 these' proportions. 



f See pages 70 and 74 of the Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Mar- 

 riages m England. 



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