. Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health . former periods ofour history. In Boston, in 1810 to 1820, it destroyed percent.; in the last period, only ; a decrease of more thanone-half. 12. The Deaths by Violence are nearly as great in the coun-try as in Boston, though the proportional numbers vary in bothplaces. Accidents and drowning are the most numerous and scalds, intemperance and suicide, cause nearly thesame proportions. 102 SANITARY REPORT. The following are some of the many important conclusionsto which the facts thus far disclose
. Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health . former periods ofour history. In Boston, in 1810 to 1820, it destroyed percent.; in the last period, only ; a decrease of more thanone-half. 12. The Deaths by Violence are nearly as great in the coun-try as in Boston, though the proportional numbers vary in bothplaces. Accidents and drowning are the most numerous and scalds, intemperance and suicide, cause nearly thesame proportions. 102 SANITARY REPORT. The following are some of the many important conclusionsto which the facts thus far disclosed lead us:— 1. It is proved that there is a great difference, in this State,in the longevity of people living in different places and underdifferent circumstances. This fact is presented in a forciblemanner in the subjoined illustration, taken from the Census ofBoston, (p. 158.) The cut is drawn in ten divisions, each way ;those from left to right representing the ages of life ; those fromtop to bottom, the per centage of survivors :— 3 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100. Take one hundred persons from each of four different classesof people : 100 of those who enjoy an amount of life equalto the healthy classes in England ; 100 of those who died atNewton, in 1810 to 1830 ; 100, of those who died in Boston,in 1840 to 1845 ; and 100 of the Catholics of Boston. If eachof the hundred persons in all these classes had lived 100 years,each class would have enjoyed 10,000 years of life. But per-sons die at all ages, and in some classes very much earlierthan in others. Accordingly four lines are drawn diagonally CONCLUSIONS. 103 across the cut, from the top on the left to the bottom on theright, to represent the amount of life that each class white and shaded spaces below these lines represent life,and the dark and shaded spaces above the lines represent upper line represents the survivors in England ; the nextbelow, those in Newton; the third, the general populatio
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