SS' Number of Deaths, ^c. 



there died 9^3 children of two years old and under-— al- 

 most two thirds of the whole number of deaths. 



The influence of summer heat upon young children is 

 apparent from the increased mortality in the month of 

 July — an equal increase not taking place so early among 

 the adults. 



Of one hundred persons that die in New- York, accor- 

 ding to this bill of mortality for ten years, there die of 



In this account, children who had completed two years 

 of age are included in the first number, contrary, I be- 

 lieve, to usual practice. It is proper to remark the great 

 proportion of deaths between the ages of 40 and 50. 

 This proportion is far greater than it is in country towns. 



This period of ten years, from 1786 to 1795, inclu- 

 sive of both, was marked by several epidemic diseases, 

 the measles and whooping cough and scarlatina Angino- 

 sa, which increased the mortality among children in 

 1789, 1792 and 1793 — and the yellow fever increased 

 the mortality among the adults in 1795. Taking the 

 five healthy years of the period, viz. 1786, 1787 and 

 1788, 1790 and 1791, and the proportion of children of 

 two years and under, is nearly 46 out of a hundred, not 

 including premature births. 



