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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.

Table 8.—Shewing the number of persons who would be alive, in the eastern division, at the respective undermentioned ages, supposing 100 to be alive, at the ages indicated, in all England.

	Alive in Carlisle.	Proportional number alive in the Eastern Division.
at 10	100	117
at 20	100	119
at 30	100	119
at 40	100	122
at 50	100	129
at 60	100	135
at 70	100	146
at 80	100	185
at 90	100	280
at 100	100	1375

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;