Epidemics considered with relation to their common nature, and to climate and civilization : in two lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, November 1855 / by Southwood Smith.

  • Smith, Southwood, 1788-1861.
Date:
1856
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    08 Male Sex. K. ir.’a Tontine. Mr. P.’s Tontines. Excess hy lati Arc. Yrs. Wks. Vra. Wks. Yri Wks, 90 ... 2 45 n 10 85 ... .0 40 n 0^ 80 ... 4 14 5 9 n TJ 75 ... 5 37 0 40 70 ... ft 41 1 1 6.5 ... 11 04 1 .11 60 ... 12 8 14 17 0 0 55 ... 17 20 50 ... 20 6 5? 1« 45 .... 24 7 A Ofl 40 .... 27 22 .. 35 ..., .SO .34 n in 30 .... 26 35 .3.3 .39 . . 7 4. 25 .... .36 2ft . .. . R 17 20 .... 29 23 .3ft 49 n 9K 15 .... 32 20 42 14 .... 9 46 10 .... 36 7 46 11 10 4 4 .... 40 14 49 39 9 25 It is now evident that, age for age, the excess of existence obtained by the Female over and above that allotted to the Male is as under:— In King William's In Mr. IHtt's four Tontine. Tontines. Arc. Yrs, Wks. Yrs. W3cs. 80 0 2 .. . 0 23 75 0 19 0 40 70 0 43 .... 1 17 65 1 20 .... 1 16 60 1 28 ..... 1 34 65 1 34 2 3 50 1 38 ..... 2 39 45 1 34 2 24 40 2 1 ..... 2 16 35 2 11 .... ..... 2 28 30 2 33 2 39 25 3 37 3 22 20 5 8 ... . 4 4 15 6 11 3 40 10 4 60 4 51 4 4 6 3 46 Total, 40 10 ..... 40 5 There is in all this something very like internal evidence of the accuracy of the Law of Mortality which I have inferred to prevail at each of the periods under consideration, separated as they are by a century. But we arc not left solely to the facts derived from the Tontine of William and Mary for the establishment of so eminent a truth in the national history of man, as this increase in his longevity is proved to be. The records of the town of Northampton for the year 1755, in which was found its population at each age (a city of shoemakers they were), and the baptisms and burials from 1746 to 1766, enabled Dr. Price to