The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-01-27
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VIOLENT DEATHS.
Proportions In Great Britain and
this Country. "

Proportions In Great Britain and
this Country.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
We read with alarm that in India be.
tween 10000 and 10000 persous an
nually fall victims to the bites Of yenos
nous reptiles or the depredatiops Of
map-eatipg tigers, or other ferocioui
beasts. The astonishment which these
facts create appears to indicate an i'm.
preston that it would be impossible to
point to anything analogous or para
lell in more civilized lands. Yet dur
ing the census year Of 1871, in England
and Wales l6.s03 persons met death BY
violence. while during the census year
ofl870 the number Of such deaths in
this country Was II SIT.
The risk OF such deaths for each 10.
dividual 10 England and Wales may
also be examined. The population
being %. $50, 0O0. and l6, 993 of the num-
Der having died of violence 10 the year
1871, it follows that out OF every TO-
600 living, from seven to eight me,
their deaths from this class of causes
And ss the proportions have not varied
materially OF late years, this may be
taken as representing the average
chance persons in that country stand Of
coming by such deatbs. To India, with
it's population of 100000. 900. the chance
10 that only one person out OF every TO-
600 living should die Of serpent bite, OF
from injuries inflicted by wild animals
30 that an Englishman runs from sever
to eight times q greater risk ola violen
death than an East Indian does from
the particular causes just mentioned
The chances of like fatality in thi'
country lie SOM ething in the ratio OF IT,.
600 to 100000 or Whereabouts, which
would make q rate OF 4 10 in eact
10000, q circumstance which woulc
tend to show that, in proportion as pop
ulatiop is concentrated, violent death
increase The English returns show
terrible uniformity in the class OF DEATH
in question. Thus in 1870 the tota
number was Is 593 in 1869 it was Is.
497; it was l6,96S iu 1868; 1886 il
1861; 1915 in 1866; 1874 in 1865
aud l7,OlS in 1864. Taking the tweht.
wears from 1850 to 1869, itsppears tina
out O! every million English people liv
Ing during that period, 1854 have ever.
wear come to an uutimely end from on
or another form of violence. The aver
age was highest 10 the year 1865. wher
the proportion was 835 out OF every
million. 1t was lowest in 1857. wher
the proportion per million fell to 725
Old age. the only cause OF death tina
can be conpidered the natural one, il
less than twice SO fatal as violence.
Out OF q million deaths amoui
Epglisnmen, decay OF nature after
! tuli spent life accounts for no NOR
that Sc, 527, as against 80 463 referabl
TO violent causes. Only 1,407 out Q
every million Epglishmen die in tn
course OF year from old age. Will
within the same period the terrible Ger
tsiuty of violent death awaits 764 GU
OF the million. On the other han
deaths from age are scarce in our Geo
sus returns. In the census year 1871
they aggregate 3.449. From the'
figures, it would appear that betwee
1900 and Is 600 persons now in healt
will die BY violence during the presen
year in this land. 10 1870 there wei
| 1851 suicides-a small fractional pre-
portion only Of these deaths. The fats
cases BY violence average in this countl
about 4S per day, or two an hour
the years slain, laying in their coffin
we're laid leugthwise along the roa'
they would stretch, 10 unbroken line,
distance of some siXten miles