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40 to 50 12 



50 to 60 16 



60 to 70 8 



70 to 80 8 



80 to 90 8 



■We see from this statement that in the classes between the ages of 

 20 and 60, the proportion swells twelve to sixteen times the mortality 

 of average. In the classes beyond that age it sinks again to eight, 

 and in children varies from to 4. Cholera no doubt made the 

 greatest havoc among the dissolute and intemperate. Few confirmed 

 drunkards live beyond the age of sixty, and if the above calculations 

 are reliable, the table above strongly confirms this opinion. 



To conclude, whether this epidemic is independent or not of climate 

 and its conditions, one thing is certain, both with respect to it and 

 other diseases, that human agency is far more actively engaged than 

 many are willing to admit. Experience of the past has abundantly 

 testified that many evils which are man's heritage may be greatly 

 aggravated or alleviated, and even the mortality which cannot be al- 

 together averted may be signally diminished. Had the sanitary mea- 

 sures which are now in fashion, imperfect as they still are, been in 

 existence in 1832 ; could some Hercules have purified that Augean 

 stable, muddy York, — closed the groggeries, ventilated the dwellings, 

 and applied all our modern disinfectionals of 18G1, — the pestilence 

 would have been stripped of much of its horrors,, and many a valuable 

 life would have been saVed which was sacrificed to the neglect of those 

 means of prevention which were in the reach of all. 



NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 



PART IX. 



BY THE REV. JOHN M^CAUL, LL.D., 



PEESIDENT OTS UNIVEESITY COLLEGE, TOEONTO. 



57. The concluding article of Part VIII. was devoted to the ex- 

 amination of the simpler forms of inscription on the pigs of lead found 

 in Britain. To the remarks, which have been offered there, it seems 

 unnecessary to add more than the observation that those pigs exhibit 



