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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt:... so that at many ages the married have a greater death-rate than the single. 'See Farr, Vital Statistics, p. 209. There is no doubt that vice and crime add to the mortality. It is possible to trace the influence of morality on the death-rate only indirectly. One method is by the statistics of the deaths among illegitimate children. The vice shows itself in such neglect of the offspring that the mortality among them is sometimes frightful, and it is always in excess of that among the legitimates. In Prussia, in 1880, of the legitimate children 22.6 per cent died during the first year, of the illegitimate 38.8 per cent. In the large cities 28.6 per cent of the legitimates and 50.0 per cent of the illegitimates died during the first year. After that period it is difficult to trace the illegitimates except in the statistics of crime. The social position of some classes, implying a better economic condition, renders the death-rate less among them than among the lower classes; but this is only a general statement which it is impossible to verify by exact statistics, because of the difficulty of classifying deaths according to the social position of the deceased. In Germany they have, in one or two cases, classified the deaths according to the quarter of the city and it has been found, of course, that the higher death-rate is in the quarters inhabited by the lower classes. But it is impossible to get clear-cut divisions of this sort and the higher mortality is due to the sanitary condition of the places inhabited by the lower classes. Mortality in Occupations. In the same general direction are the attempts to constitute by the statistics of mortality a greater or less healthfulness of occupations. The trouble is that it may be not the occupation itself but other c...