52 Gentlemen and persons engaged in professions, and their families 45 years. 138 Tradesmen and their families 39 413 Operatives, labourers, servants, and their families 34 The following tables exhibit the results of such returns of mortality as have been made for quinquennial and decennial periods, from an examination of upwards of 25,000 cases for this inquiry. They show in the mean ratios for large numbers of the like class the steady influence of the different circumstances under which each class is placed. The labouring classes, it is generally known, become old the soonest, and the effects of the unfavourable influences in the adolescent and adult stages is shown in the smaller proportions who attain extreme old age, and also in the periods of the deaths of heads of families of this class, by which widowhood is produced. These last will be shown in subsequent tables. _Tabular Views of the Ages at which Deaths have occurred in Different Classes of Society._[18] ┌───────────────────────────┬──────┬───────────────────────┬──────────┐ │ CLASSES. │Total │ │ │ │ │No. of│ │ │ │ │Deaths│ │Proportion│ │ │under │ │of Deaths │ │ │ 20 │ Proportion of Deaths │ under 20 │ │ │Years │ which occurred at the │ Years to │ │ │ of │under-mentioned periods│ Total │ │ │ Age. │ of Age. │ Deaths. │ ├───────────────────────────┼──────┼───────┬───────┬───────┼──────────┤ │ │ │Between│Between│Between│ │ │ │ │ 0–5 │ 5–10 │ 10–20 │ │ ├───────────────────────────┼──────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼──────────┤ │ _Gentry and Professional │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Persons, Children of._ │ │ │ │ │ │ │Manchester │ 21│1 in 3│1 in 24│1 in 54│ 1 in 3 │ │Leeds │ 20│1 in 5│1 in 26│1 in 40│ 1 in 4 │ │Liverpool │ 61│1 in 3│1 in 11│1 in 23│ 1 in 2½ │ │Bath │ 32│1 in 11│1 in 12│1 in 31│ 1 in 4½ │ │Bethnal Green │ 33│1 in 5│1 in 20│1 in 13│ 1 in 3 │ │Strand Union │ 21│1 in 6│1 in 29│1 in 29│ 1 in 4 │ │Kendal Union │ 15│1 in 7│1 in 26│1 in 9│ 1 in 3 │ │County of Wilts (Unions of)│ 25│1 in 9│1 in 40│1 in 13│ 1 in 5 │ │County of Rutland (Unions │ │ │ │ │ │ │ of) │ 4│1 in 4│ │ │ 1 in 7 │