Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in England, 1861 The deaths of males were to the deaths of females as 103 to 100 and out of equal numbers of the two sexes the proportions become 106 to 100. Ages. - The rate of mortat under ten years of age was higher than usual in both sexes; and generally lower at the more advanced ages. Seaman - Tho winter was the most fatal of the four quarters; and this is explained in the Quarterly Reports, of which the following is a summary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.