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From the above it appears that rather more than 3^ per cent, per 

 annum is the general rate of decrement ; and that more than one-fourth of the 

 deaths occur in the first year of infancy ; which, however, is a more favorable 

 result for that tender period, than London could exhibit 50 years back, 

 when nearly one-third of its native-born population were found to decease 

 in the first twelve months after birth. More than half of the total deaths at 

 Delhi in 1833 seem to have occurred under 10 years of age : while the 

 excess of mortality in males keeps pace with the observations of other 

 countries : among adults, generally, one dies yearly from a number of 

 forty-two, and one from every sixteen below the age of ten. In some 

 remarks added to the table itself, it is said that a small number from 

 the deaths may be deducted for strangers and foreigners, and a large 

 proportion for the small-pox in Delhi, since the abolition of the Vaccine 

 Institution. The calculation does not include the royal palace, said to 

 contain twenty thousand souls. 



Application having been made to Delhi for information regarding 

 any period prior to former years, it was stated in reply that the enquiry 

 had not been instituted for 1833. In future, it is hoped, these bills of 

 mortality will be regularly exhibited. 



The native soldiers on the Bengal Establishment are particularly 

 healthy under ordinary circumstances. It has been found by a late enquiry, 

 embracing a period of five years,* that only one man is reported to have 

 died per annum, out of every one hundred and thirty-one on the actual 

 strength of the army. So injurious, however, is Bengal Proper, to this 

 class of natives, in comparison with the Upper Provinces, that although 

 only one-fourth of the troops exhibited, are stationed in Bengal, the 

 deaths of that fourth are more than a moiety of the whole mortality 

 reported. It cannot be affirmed that this Table affords any criterion 



• Vide Table No. 1. 



