Show MORTALITY ley ITY IN NEW NEV YORK i ane deaths in the city of new york for the week ending may ath were the stillborn still born 45 total bill of mortality the births for the week were excess of deaths over births these figures figure swe we copy from the new york herald for may ath that paper says the average weekly excess of mortality for the year over the births berthawe birt hawe we may set down at and be within the mark at this rate the city without any accession from the outside world would in the course ofa of a single year be reduced in nits aits its population over and the he same ratio of loss 3 applied to the population of the united states would reduce it in one year to lo 10 the extent of over what a lesson for the political economist is here these facts are of such a character as to require no comment but one can not thinking what use such statistics would be put to by religious bigots and political tricksters trick if salt lake city or utah territory instead ofner of new york city were the place where the deaths preponderated so heavily over the births sermons political speeches and editorial articles would be tilled filled with illustrations of we th e inferiority and deadly tendency of pat riar chial chiai marriages and penns would be sung at the prospect of the speedy extinction of a people who had bad thus brought upon themselves condign punishment for the violation of natures na tures turea laws |