New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-05
,rr,rs OF MORTALITY Is THE
PRINCIPAL CITIES o CHEAT BRITAIN .

We are not Justified in selecting from the right hand
column OF the above table the death rate OF London or
Bristol and using that the death rate OF the CORE
spending class In Sew-York The mean death rate OF
London Is only o. while, any suppositon, that OF
New.York exceeds 90 The special death rate OF Gias-
cow viz ais In the 1000 for persons aged IS and over,
seems 10 be the forrest which we assume for New.
York The English, or In this case, should say the
Scotch ere certainly hardy the mixed population OF
Irish, Germans, negroes, and native Americans which
inhabs the City Of Now.York This number 3ll5. Is %
per cent OF the death rate, which is therefore S
each living all ages Dividing 2ss9, the num-
Der Of deaths Ia NewYork lSGs 10 obtain the number
OF thousands inhabitants obtain 79IOOO the
trcme LIMIT of the population OF New. York in 1863
In the above demonstration have taken the of35
the dividing line. We reach almost exactly the
suit by taking the age OF as We must however, caution
the reader fault the ofls65 which would
otherwise assuredly lead him astray should he attempt
verify statistics Briefly II stands recorded In tho
that not far from 5000 OF the inhabitants Of New
York did falsely asscyerte themselves be Of the
OF Ij years, whereas II Is dem0nstrabc that they had
seen that number Of Winters The census returns -
male persons and 27 female persons between the ga
OF 90 and 4j and 81 $40 males and 1895 females between
the ages Of As and 90 Now know from the Euglish
census and from the OF NewIork taken In 1855,
that the proportion Of persons between the ages
Of IS and those between the ages Of 40 and
four SIX This proportion find TO obtain In the
OF the women but the men are about equally distributed
between the two classes. We for time puzzled
10 account for this remarkable phenomenon but at length
1t suddenly struck that IL account OF the drdn
Nearly one mn Of the entire male population Of New
York city, between tho ages OF 30 and 49, appear to have
falsely stated their ages avoid the draft and to have
stuck statement when the marshals came
round which was not until after the war was over
When we consider how many OF these 600 between
the ages and not liable to bo drafted at all
on account OF physical defects beng aliens, and
that our 5000 only includes those who adhered
TO their false statements II seems possible that
the psalmst was not far out OF the way in
his angry Impeachment Of the yeraoity OF the human
race The middeagod OF the rural districts appear
still greater disadvantage the record In tho whole
outside OF the City Of New York. according 10 the
census 122 aged 30, and under 49, and
e4lGs over 49, and under 80. Such wholesale mendacy
here brought TO light Is utterly astounding IL has
no parallel except in the sesacrihcing patriotism OF
these prematurely aged AS basis OF division OF
that portion OF the Inhabitants aged between 40 and So
we took the proportion 1884, obtained from the
sus OF New-YOrk city taken by the State IN 1885, and
from census In 1865 This proportion makes
q somewhat moro unequal division than that which is
given by the census OF 1861 for the English cities
Returning to subject, after this DEPRESSION, we would
invite the readers attention to two tables which CORE
spond to the similar tables above except that tho line Of
division is the age OF As, instead Of 35.
TABLE Kill
CLAu IS
Ratios Living 10 Lirfag ne DEATHS Total D,ah.
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