Age | No. | Education | ||||
Attend Sunday School | Attend Day school during winter | Regularly attend public worship | Can read an easy book | Can write | ||
8 to 9 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
9 to 10 | 3 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
10 to 11 | 6 | - | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
11 to 12 | 8 | - | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
12 to 13 | 3 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
13 to 14 | 3 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
14 to 15 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
15 to 16 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
16 to 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
17 to 18 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Totals | 35 | 3 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 31 |
In the years | Population | Annual Deaths | Yearly Average of deaths for six years |
1835-6 | 1260 | 21 | 22 1/6, or 1 to 50 |
1836-7 | 1238 | 26 | |
1837-8 | 1104 | 23 | |
1838-9 | 1091 | 34 | |
1839-40 | 980 | 19 | |
1840-1 | 970 | 10 | |
General Total | 6643 | 133 |
Immediate cause of death | Males | Females | Total |
Colic | 1 | -- | 1 |
Disease of rectum | 1 | -- | 1 |
Mesenteric disease | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Croup | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Asthma | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Dyspnoea | 3 | -- | 3 |
Remittent fever | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Continued fever | -- | 1 | 1 |
Typhus fever | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Psoas abscess | -- | 2 | 2 |
Inflammation of brain | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Inflammatory affectations of chest | 7 | 2 | 9 |
Chronic affectations of chest | 9 | 11 | 20 |
Inflammatory affectations of stomach and bowels | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Inflammation of liver | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Inflammation of kidney | 1 | -- | 1 |
Dysentery | -- | 4 | 4 |
Influenza | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Rheumatism | -- | 1 | 1 |
Rheumatic gout | 1 | -- | 1 |
Scarlet fever | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Decay of old age | 5 | 4 | 9 |
Consumption | 5 | 6 | 11 |
Lues (from Edinburgh) | 1 | -- | 1 |
Aneurism | -- | 1 | 1 |
Convulsions | 3 | -- | 3 |
Apoplexy | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Paralysis | 3 | -- | 3 |
Childbed | -- | 1 | 1 |
Disease of spine | -- | 1 | 1 |
Dropsy of chest | -- | 1 | 1 |
General dropsy | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Cutaneous disease | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Fungus nematodes | -- | 1 | 1 |
Killed in mines | 5 | -- | 5 |
Totals | 68 | 62 | 130 |
Ages of death | Males | Females | Total | Remarks |
Under 1 year | 10 | 4 | 14 |
Nine of these deaths were from persons brought sick from the country to the village There are at present 46 widows and 16 widowers in the village |
1 and under 2 years | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
2 and under 5 years | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
5 and under 10 years | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
10 and under 20 years | 3 | 7 | 10 | |
20 and under 30 years | 4 | 6 | 10 | |
30 and under 40 years | 2 | 5 | 7 | |
40 and under 50 years | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
50 and under 60 years | 7 | 3 | 10 | |
60 and under 70 years | 10 | 17 | 27 | |
70 and under 80 years | 13 | 8 | 21 | |
80 and under 90 years | 4 | -- | 4 | |
90 and under 100 years | 1 | -- | 1 | |
68 | 62 | 130 | ||
Also 3 deaths which I did not attend | 3 | |||
General Total | 133 |