The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

SELECT VESTRY PROCEBDINGS.-YUZSDAY.

?regent, Rev. lector Campbell, in the chair; Rev.
YLector Brooks, end Messrs. Molvneux,Mchofield. Thorn-
ley, Groove, Mayor, Ferguson, Ford, Bennett, Cluy,
Henderson, Blackburn, Hanel, William liender:on.
Bremner, Kilshaw, Holmes. and the Vestry-clerk.
The usual routine of reading the minutes of the last
meeting and the different committees having been gone
through, the 'Various reports of expenditure of in and out-
door poor were presented, by which it appeared that the
number of out-door cases relieved was 091, being thirty-
tam loss than those of the same period last year ; and the
number of paupers in the workhouse was 1,644, being
twenty-two more then last year, which may be classed
thus :—Aged and infirtn, employed, 199; aged, infirm,
and sick, unable to work, s'2'; ; able-bodied, 315 ; and
children, 584.
A vote of thanks was passed to the British and Foreign
Bible Society, though their secretnrics, Mr. Brandram and
Mr. Browne, for their offer, which was accepted, gratui-
tously to supply the parish schools with Bibles and Testa-
ments.
A number of tenders for fitting up the Industrial School
with desks, &c., as per advertisement, were referred to
the furnishing committee fir that building.
The CHAIRMAN presented the following statementfrom
the filth report of the Registrar-General :
In Liverpool the registered Births in 1841 were 7,735
Deaths 7,5513

So that the Births only exceeded the Deaths by.... 179
In Manchester, in the same year, the regi*tert'd
Births were
D:atbs

So that the Births exceeded the Deaths by ..
If these returns were accurate, and this were the tverage
relation of births to deaths, Liverpool would present the
singular spectacle of a population nearly s7ationary from
natural causes, and owing its increa•e principally to the
immigration of labourers, and this, too, in a place where
the marriages are very numerous: being 1 marriage to 67
persons, instead of 1 to 71, as in Manchester with Salford,
and Ito 136, as in Birmingham. It is, however, highly
probable that all the births were not registered in 1841,
and th• returns for 1842 show a considerable excess of
births over deaths.

Still, however, the returns, as compared with those for
the extra-Metropolitan parts of tim county of Surrey,
show that if it was not for immigration, the increase .of
the population of Liverpool would be trifling. The popu-
lation cf the extra-Metropolitan parts of Surrey was, in
1841, rather more than that of Liverpool, being 227,723 to
223,003; yet in 1841 the deaths in Surrey were 4256, the
deaths in Liverpool 7.556, showing an excess of 3 300.
Out of 14,450 boys under five years of age, 2,087 died in
Liverpool ; out of 14,450 boys in Surrey, only 699 died in
the same time; showing in Liverpool an excess of mor-
tality among boys under five of 1,388.
By this immense mortality in Liverpool, the number of
males living between the ages of ten and fifteen is reduced
to 10,544, while that in Surrey is 13,226 ; but between the
ages of twenty and thirty, when immigration takes place,
the proportions change.
The number of males in Liverpool between 20 and
30 years of age, are ....
The number in Surrey

Showing an excess in Liverpool of
Sickness and death, however, do their accustomed
work in the usual course of years, and so it is
found that between the axes of 45 and 55, the
number of males in Surrey is.. .
While in Liverpool they are reduced to

Showing an excess it. Surrey of.•
..
.....
From the life tables grounded on these returns
com-
parative
t
expectation
o the
of
Surreylife w
children born— ay b
observations,
ye: ed.
According
out of 100,000
In Surrey 75.42361:,2i live to 10 years old.
London
Liverpool, only
In Surrey
London....
Liverpool, only
In Surrey 28 l3B live to 70 years old.
London ..16,3-t4
Liverpo,d, only .. 8,373
Not much more thau half the number that attain that age
in the Metropolis.
Toe result of these calculations is, that the probable du-
ration of life in Surrey is 53 years; in the Metropolis, 40
years ; in Liverpool only seven or eigbt,—a result so very
startling that it may need explanation.
The probable duration of life means the age to wlalch it
is an even chance a population will live. Thus, in Eng-
land, according to the tahles, 50,301 out of 100,000 horn,
live to the age of 45 ; and 49,699 die before that ago is
attained ; hence there are 50,301 chances in favour of at-
taining the age of 45, and 49,699 aga!nit that event..
chances therefore are nearly *yen Wf attaining, or not at-
taining, Out age or torty-five sad a half, which is the pru-
habit" duratiou of lib its iliagLand.