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air and exercise. Yet we, who claim to be intelligent and civilizeJ, 

 who are taught the minutest particulars of nature's laws, suffer our 

 numbers and strength, the bones, and sinews, and hearts of our peo- 

 ple, to waste and die away in narrow and gloomy caverns of our own 

 construction, with a rapidity surpassing that of the combined tor- 

 rents of pestilence and war. Our sin is the greater that we permit 

 these things in the midst of the light of science, and under the inspi- 

 ring dictates of a religion, whose most prominent features are charity 

 and love. 



In the celebrated report of the sanitary condition of the laboring 

 population of Great Britain, Mr. Chadwick gives the following, 

 among other instances, of the comparative chances of life, in diffe- 

 rent classes of the community: 



Truro. 



2f 0. of deaths. Arerage age of dec'd • 



33 Professional persons, or gentry and their families, 40 years. 

 138 Persons engaged in trade, or similarly circumstanced, 



and their families, - 33 " 



447 Laborers, Artisans, and their families, 28 " 



Bolton Union, (manufacturing district.) 



103 Gentlemen, professional persons, and their fami- 

 lies, 34 « 



381 Tradesmen, and their families,--- - 23 " 



2232 Mechanics, servants, laborers, and their families,- 18 " 



Bethnal Green, (manufacturing, chiefly domestic.) 



101 Gentlemen, and persons engaged in professions, 



and their families, - 45 " 



273 Tradesmen and their families, 26 " 



1258 Mechanics, servants, laborers, and their families,- - 16 " 



In Liverpool, a commercial, and not a manufacturing town, where, 

 according to the report of Dr. Duncan, 40,000 people live in cellars, 

 and where one in twenty-five of the population are annually attacked 

 with fever, the mean chances of life appear to be still lower than in 

 Manchester, Leeds, or among the silk weavers of Bethnal Green. In 

 size and character Liverpool is somewhat allied to New- York, hence 

 it^ vital statistics aire more particularly interesting to us, as more 

 likely to approach ours in similarity. 



