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 Rh division; at 80, nearly double the number are living in the eastern division than in all England; and at 90, almost three times the number, to omit as before the proportion at the very advanced age of 100 and upwards.

From the two foregoing tables we may conclude that among those who, in the eastern division, live to attain their 10th year, are many persons whose constitutions are delicate and susceptible, and who die before they reach their 20th or 30th year. After 30, the constitutions of the inhabitants of the eastern division become, as it were, established; they have surmounted the vicissitudes incidental to the early period of adult life, and the rate of mortality, as compared with all England, greatly diminishes. The general results of the foregoing tables may be thus stated:—the number of persons who die under 10 years old, is very much less in the eastern division of the district around Malvern, than in any other locality with which I am acquainted; between the ages of 10 and 30, the number who die is greater;