778 LONGEVITY OF DIFFERENT CLASSES. 



given by Quetelet, theologians live longer in 

 Prussia than any other class ; agriculturists next ; 

 and physicians the shortest period of all. More 

 extended observations are required to furnish data 

 for a sure induction. 



According to the reports of Tulloch, life is longer 

 among officers of the British army in the West In- 

 dies, than among privates, in the ratio of 7*8 per 

 cent, to 4*2 ; while the mortality increases from 

 the age of eighteen to forty and upwards. And 

 we learn from the late report of Mr. Chadwick, 

 on the sanatory condition of the labouring popu- 

 lation in England and Wales, that the average 

 value of life among the nobility and gentry, varies 

 from forty to fifty-seven years, among the trades 

 people, from twenty-seven to forty-one while 

 among labourers and mechanics, it is from fifteen 

 to twenty-five years, that above 50 per cent, of 

 all the children belonging to the labouring classes 

 die under five years of age ; whereas the ratio is 

 only 25 per cent, among the gentry. The fatal 

 influence of destitution would appear from the 

 fact, that out of 12,313 individuals of all ages, in 

 the English workhouses, 2552 deaths occurred in 

 1838, or about 20 per cent, of the whole. (Lancet, 

 May 1, 1841.) But even in the hospitals and in- 

 firmaries of England, the mean annual mortality 

 varies from 4 to 1 1 per cent, according to Porter's 

 Progress of the Nation. 



