Vital statistics : a memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr / edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Noel A. Humphreys.

  • William Farr
Date:
1885
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    91/600 (page 59)
    period from iufaucy to old age, after 55 very rapidly, and nearly in the same ratio as the general mortality. Of the deal'-aud-dumb, the highest proportions are at the periods of age ranging between 5 and 25 years, and tile numbers then gradually diminish as the ages advance. Proportion of the Blinu and the Deaf-and-Dumij at different Ages to the Male and Femai,e Population in 1861. To every ] 00,000 living at each age, the proportion of Yeaks of Age. Blind. Deaf-and-Dumb. Males. Females. Males. Females. All Ages. 104-8 88-5 70-0 52-4 0- 21-6 17-5 21-9 19-2 5- 27-8 23-4 85-2 66-1 10- 41-8 31-3 98-4 70-8 15- 49-7 36-5 88-6 59-9- 25- 74-7 42-2 73-3 52-6 35- 104-0 62-7 68-1 47-1 45- 148-8 101-4 67-2 54'8 55- 263-4 216-6 64-7 54-6 65- 558-3 504-3 59-9 49-4 75- 1216-6 1233-4 55-6 43-2 85 and upwards 2468-5 2321-9 61-5 63'1 The increase in the proportion of the Blind at the higher ages is the result of the additional numbers every year becoming blind. And the rate of increase after puberty is governed by the same law as that which governs other sickness. The facts relating to deaf-and-dumb children under the age of 5 are from their nature imperfectly recorded. The diminution of the proportion of the Deaf-and-Dumb after the age of 15 can only be accounted for by their mortality being at a higher rate than that of the general population. (Census Report, 1861, Vol. 3, p. 58.) 11. Economic Value of Population.* Various attempts have been made to estimate the amount and the increase of the capital of the United Kingdom. The most recent attempt of the kind has been made by the chief of the statistical depart- ment of the Board of Trade. The value of the most important jjart of the capital of the United Kingdom and its increase have yet to be determined; I mean the economic value of the population itself. To this I propose to call attention briefly. As lands, houses, railways, and the other catagories in the income tax schedules are of value, because they yield annual returns; so, for the same reason, and on the same principle, the income of the population derived from pay of every kind for professional or other services and wages can be capitalized ; not precisely, it is true, unless the income of every person living were returned at least as nearly as the incomes subject to income tax; but sufficiently near to the true value to show * See also Cost, and the Present and Future Economic Value of Man , pp. 531-7.