1838.] Table of Mortality. 825 



It will be seen from this table, that the percentage of mortality is 

 almost universally worse amongst the boys than the general average, 

 and amongst the girls better. The only ages which are exceptions 

 are 4 years, 6 years and 13. The last may be susceptible of some 

 explanation, as it might be expected that the girls at that age should 

 be more liable to disease than the boys, but not so the other two, 

 in which the difference indeed is not very wide from equality, and may 

 therefore be accidental. 



The consecutive increased mortality amongst the boys will, however, 

 require more careful notice. 



In the first three years of life when both sexes receive equal care, 

 the per centage difference is only as follows : 



Boys. 

 Lives. Deaths. Per ct. per aim. 

 7775 1120 14.404 



Girls. 

 Lives. Deaths. Per ct. per aon. 

 7842 1082 13.798 



equal to a difference between the 



sexes of one in 24. In the second 



three years it increases, being 





Boys. 

 Lives. Deaths. Per cent. 

 5656 237 4.190 



Girls. 

 Lives. Deaths. Per cent. 

 5712 209 3.659 



equal to a difference of nearly on 



e in seven. In the next five years 



it becomes 





Boys. 

 Lives. Deaths. Per cent. 

 6576 167 2.538 



Girls. 

 Lives. Deaths. Per cent. 

 7284 146 2.004 



or more than one quarter in exc 



ess for the boys ; and from the age 



of 11 to 15 it is as high as 





Boys. 

 Lives. Deaths. Per cent. 

 1791 38 2.121 



Girls. 

 Lives. Deaths. Per cent. 

 4613 54 1.170 



or nearly double. 



The number of boys becomes so small after the age of fifteen, that 

 it is needless to pursue the comparison, but the deaths amongst 70 

 and 38 boys of the ages of 15 and 16 respectively being so high as 

 8.219, and 7.692 per cent., there is reason to believe that in respect 

 to the youths of this sex after the age of 14, the institution is merely 

 a hospital, the healthy boys being all apprenticed out, or otherwise 

 disposed of, while the sickly remain, because they are unfit to enter 

 the army as musicians, or to undertake any trade or profession. 



But this circumstance, though it accounts for the large mortality 

 amongst the remnant of boys after 14 and 15 years of age, will not 

 account for the consecutive increased mortality on the large numbers 

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