505

DECEASED CENTENARIANS.

demic, but this scourge, consumption, creates no fear with the peo-
ple, and they pass heedlessly and carelessly along without taking any
precaution to guard against its flattering premonitory symptoms.
If the inhabitants at the north were as guarded as the people in
Virginia, or other southern States, in their clothing and exposure to
inclement weather, this mortality, caused by lung affection, could
be reduced at least fifty per cent.

DECEASED CENTENARIANS IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE SINCE 1822.

Through the courtesy of Dea. Daniel F. Secomb of Concord,
we are enabled to give the number of persons who have died since
1822, at one hundred years of age and upwards.

The reader will perceive that people live quite as long at the
present day, as fifty years ago, notwithstanding the sayings of older
people to the contrary, who are led to believe that the vanities of dress,
and the general style of living, has a tendency to shorten life. There
t    is no doubt but the generation of to day has a lease of life at least

ten years longer than the generatioiAf seventy-five years ago.

The census of New-Hampshire in 1870, when compared with that
of 1860, reveals some curious facts which are worthy of careful con-
sideration. The number of children in 1860, under ten years of
age, was 67,578; in 1870,47,817 ; fifteen and under twenty, in 1860,
34,460; in 1870, 31,578; forty years and under fifty, in 1860,
33,613; in 1870, 39,355; seventy and under eighty, in 1860, 9,941;
in 1870, 16,647; eighty and under ninety years, in 1860, 3,030;
in 1870,3,555 ; ninety and under one hundred years, in 1860, 364 ;
in 1870, 337 ; one hundred years and over, in 1860,7 ; in 1870, 18.
It also shows that in 1860, there were living in New-Hampshire
266,952 persons under fifty years of age; of the same age in 1870,
235,998, or 30,954 less than in 1860. The number of persons of
;    fifty years of age and upwards in 1860, was 59,120; in 1870, 82,

302, or 23,182 more than in 1860. It is evident that the principal

i    cause of this great change in the population of the State, as to age,

is in the younger class leaving the State to seek employment else-
i    where, and leaving the older persons at home. If this young class

'    with their wives and children would return to New-Hampshire, who

|    have left it within the past ten years, it would no doubt increase the

population at least 40,000. The Avar had something to do with this

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