The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-04-04
THELlFE OF A MILLION PEOPLE.

MIN Annual REPORT OIL the Register
General (England) presents some
valuable and interesting statistics.
The report.singles out, in imagination,
a generation of one million persons,
and traces its eventful journey from
the moment of birth to the end of
life. OF these, taking the whole of
England, more than one fourth die
before they reach five years of age,
and most of the survivors have been
attacked once or oftener by disease.
During the next five years the tenure
of life becomes more sure, and between
five and ten years of age the number
of deaths is less than seventh part
of that Of the first quinquenniad.
Between ten and fifteen the average
mortality is lower than at any other
period. From fifteen to twenty the
number of deaths increase again,
essecially among women, many of
whom fall prey to consumption and
childbirth. At this period the effect
of dangerous occupations begins to
affect the death rate. Fully eight
times as many men as women die of
violent deaths. The number of violent
deaths continues to rise from twenty
five, and keeps high for at least twenty
years. this is, until the age of forty
five is reached. Consumption is
prevalent and fatal from twenty to
forty-five and is responsible for nearly
half the deaths. From thirty-five to
forty-five the effect Of wear and tear
begins to reveal itself, and many
persons succumb to diseases of the
important vicera. BY fifty-five the
imagined million has dwindled down
to less that one half, or 421. lis. After
this the death rate increases more
rapidly, and although the number of
lives grows less, the number of deaths
in each of the twenty-five years after
fifty-fve increases; the higher rate is
sustained for ten years longer, until
by degrees all disappear.
1t is somewhat surprising to find
that at seventy-five, l6l, l24 remain
on an average; at eighty.five 1856,
of whom DIR. Farr calculates that only
202 reach the age Of one hundred
years. Atfifty-three the number of
men and women surviving is about
equal, but from fifty-five and EDWARDS
the women exceed the men. OF loo
women living at the age Of fifty-five
and upwards ii are spinsters AZ
widows, and 4G wives; of 100 men, 9
are bachelors, "a widowers. and 81
husbands.
As regards occupation ito is in.
teresting to note that while the clergy
generally have An average good health
members Of the medical profession
are subject to high rate of mortality
which up to the age of fyrty-five is,
we are told, much about the average.
Chemists and druggists, commercial
clerks. MERGERS, and diapers also seem
to be less healthy than the average.
Persons who work in wood, as coach.
makers, wheelwrights, carpenters,
joiners. and sawyers. have healthier
lives than most men. Publicans,
butchers, and fishmongers have not,
as rule, good lives Carvers and
gilders, plumbers and GLACIERS, suffer
much from the metallic poisons to
which they are exposed, while the
mortality of those engaged in eaTthen-
ware manufacture approaches after
the age of thirty-fye, double the
average. Tailors and shoemakers are
also unhealthy as a class. As might
be expected farmers and agricultural
labOrers are at the present time among
the healthiest classes. but the young
farmer, for some undiscovered reason
appears TO have less healthy life