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VITAL STATISTICS. 



The following table contains the returns of death at different ages, and 

 also expresses the aggregate number of each sex dying at proximate ages, 

 and their proportions to each other : 



As respects the proportional mortality of the sexes at the same age, it 

 will be seen that the male deaths are much in excess up to the age of 10 

 years, after which period, as far as 50 years, more females die. ^lales then 

 predominate until 80 years, after which females again are remoyed in 

 greater proportion. Hence, it appears, that " from the api)roach of 

 puberty to the end of the period of reproduction, the female is more liable 

 to disease and death." 



Deaths in Extreme Old Age. — There were twenty-two deaths regis- 

 tered at the age of 100 years and oyer, of which only four were whites, viz : 

 one male and three females, the remaining eighteen (nine of each sex) 

 being negroes. The oldest were a black man and a black woman, both of 

 whom died in St. Bartholomew's Parish, the former aged 120 years, and 

 the latter 110 years. A list of them is here given : 



