Causes of Death. The list of causes of death embraced in the summary includes those from the principal infectious diseases, including consumption, together with certain other groups of destructive diseases and those from violence. The ratio of deaths to the living population is also presented, since this method of presentation constitutes a better method of indicating the incidence of each cause of death upon the living population than the ratio of the deaths from each disease or cause of death to the total mortality. TABLE II. Total Deaths, Deaths by Sexes and Age Periods, and Still-births in Cities and Towns having over 5,000 Inhabitants in Each, with General Death-rates estimated for 1896. Three hundred and twenty-seven between the ages of one and five years. † Ninety-one between the ages of ten and twenty years. Twenty-four between the ages of ten and twenty years. Eleven between the ages of ten and twenty years. Total, 40,400 20,530 19,834 36 36 2,572 10,073 2,008 909 605 435 1,139 521 949 3,536 3,434 3,104 3,538 3,826 3,489 2,178 83 19.29 *Twenty-seven between the ages of one and five years. Twenty-three between the ages of one and five years. † Nine between the ages of ten and twenty years. § Thirteen between the ages of ten and twenty years. |