Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — Not Fumy, But Curious. [ARTICLE]

Not Fumy, But Curious.

An old newspaper says if the deaths of the 2,880 persons had occurred indifferently at any hour during the twenty-four, 120 would have occurred at each hour. Bat this was hr no means the case. There are two hours in which the proportion was remarkably below this two minima, in fact, namely, from midnight to one o'clock, when the deaths were 58 per cent, below the average, and from noon to one o’clock, when they were 20% per cent below. From three to six o’clock a. m., inclusive, and from three tO Beven o’clock p. m., there is a general increase; in the former of 23% per cent above the average, in the latter of 5% per cent The maximum of deaths is from five to six o’clock a. m. when it is 40 per cent, above the average; the next, during the hour before midnight, when it is 25 per cent, in excess; a third hour of excess is that from nine to ten o’clock in the morning, being 27% per cent, above the * average. From ten a. m. to three p. m. the deaths are less numerous, being 16% per cent, below the average, the hour before noon being the most fatal. From three o’clock p. m. to Beven o’clock a. m. the deaths rise to 5% per cent, above the average, and then fall from that hour to eleven o’clock p. m., averaging 6% per cent, below the mean. During the hours from nine to eleven in the evening there is a minimum of 6% per cent, below the average. Thus, the least mortality is during the mid-day hours, mainly, from ten to three o’clock. About one-third of the total deaths note’d were children under five years of age, and they show the influence of the latter still more strikingly. At all the hours from ten in the morning until midnight the deaths are at or below the mean; the hours from ten to eleven a. m., four to five and six to ten p. m., being minima, but the hour after midnight being the lowest maximum; at all the hours from two to ten a. m. the deaths are above the mean, attaining their maximum at from five to six p. m., when it is 45% per cent, above.