

REPORT — 1842. 



We have made out tables like the above for some of the other diseases. 

 The results are all similar to those in the following table for Inflammation, 

 in which there is a great variation in the proportions for the different towns. 

 It is to be doubted, however, if much reliance can be placed on the accuracy 

 Avith which these diseases are recorded in the registers. 



It will be found by the tables above referred to, that the proportion of the 

 total annual average deaths by inflammation to the mean population of Edin- 

 burgh amounts to 0'196 per cent. ; in Glasgow to 0*185 per cent. ; in Perth 

 to 0-139 per cent. ; in Dundee to 0-143 per cent. 



The following is the proportion which the deaths by Inflammation, at different 

 a<*es, bear to the whole deaths by inflammation, in different towns, and also 

 to the population. 



The tables from No. LXXIV. to LXXX. exhibit the average annual number 

 of deaths under five, under twenty and above twenty years of age, in five of 

 the principal towns of Scotland, and also for all England, and for the City 

 of London and town of Manchester ; with the proportions which the average 

 annual deaths at these ages bear to the whole average annual deaths, and 

 to the mean population. 



Tables LXXIV. and LXXV. show, that the proportion of deaths under five 

 years of age amounted in the three years specified to 0*85 per cent, of the po- 

 pulation in Edinburgh, and to 33-62 per cent, of the whole deaths in that town. 

 For England it was 0*871 per cent, and 39*59 per cent, of deaths. In London 

 the proportion of deaths under the same age, in the years specified, amounted 

 to 1*066 per cent, of the population, and to 40-49 per cent, of the whole 

 deaths. In Glasgow the proportion of deaths under five years of age in five 

 years specified, amounted to 1*43 per cent, of the population, and to 44*58 

 per cent, of the whole deaths. By referring to the tables, it will be found 

 that there is a greater mortality under five years in London than in the 

 Scotch towns ; but the mortality in Manchester exceeds that of the most un- 

 healthy Scotch towns. 



Tables LXXVI. and LXXVII. show, that in Edinburgh the proportions of 

 deaths under 20 years of age amounted to 1*119 per cent, of the population, 

 and to 43*88 per cent, of the whole deaths. For all England the proportions 

 were respectively 1*118 and 50*83 per cent. In London the proportion of 

 deaths under that age amounted to 1*296 per cent, of the population, and to 

 49*23 per cent, of the whole deaths. In Glasgow the proportion of deaths 

 under that age amounted to 1*79 per cent, of the population, and to 55*95 per 

 cent, of the whole deaths ; and in Manchester the proportion of deaths under 

 the same age amounted to 2*027 per cent, of the population, and to 60*99 per 

 cent, of the whole deaths. 



Tables LXXVIII. and LXXIX.show, that in Edinburgh the proportion of 

 deaths above 20 years of age amounted to 1-43 per cent, of the population, and 



