Show I 1 l 1 iw I 1 0 gg 2 4 0 am jq r s 01 Q A 4 av t MO M RN 5 7 T n A N I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 4 lr i lim wt r r iz 1 I 1 M t av iza 1 M AW t c 11 7 r I 1 0 e 5 M 01 A ki 4 ft 7 I 1 tho I 1 W I 1 U V 61 1 7 i T 4 W 11 la a aj T J r chec r fe aim di is alaf ix r I 1 V i a t 40 J pe tu a aw 4 j td tj t Z I 1 I 1 4 mf W i iw a bulit ua 1 iia loav az 0 ek T I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 filar A ft q r I 1 sir 4 s I 1 1 ir I 1 N T IF tt heres I 1 ige columns of the ledger tt the deaia d I 1 of t anz who lived vo ort orbe bedont eyona the age of ofa SO yeara of 01 these them in we men and were women Compa compared compard td with thi period adif jofs 1897 tiler the last six aft months of the year which la 18 just past shows a great increase la in the number of deaths amodt aged people in A the last hau hag of 1897 too the to tal number of deaths was or less ehtan the aggregate of the six months just JUA past the result is due to in some measure to the epidemic of which raised the death rate of the last two WeekS ot of the year from an average of 44 for the pa past S t eight years to 81 though the me death rate for these them two weeks in 1898 1998 was very nearly as high vil tit 75 and in 1891 it was higher vla the total number ot of deaths of octogenarians nonagenarians and centenarians centen arians announced in the public ledger during the twelve months end ins dec 31 1899 was divided into men and women showing that 30 pet per cent more women reach 80 90 man ban do men of the males 45 reached or passed the age of 90 the average of their ages being 92 years and six months while the 76 women who lived to or beyond the age of 90 averaged 92 yom years and 11 months i |