Twenty-seven were males and twenty-eight females. The ages were as follow:
| under one | 1-5 | 5-10 | 10-20 | 20-40 | 40-60 | 60-80 | 80-90 | Total | ||||||||
| 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 9 | 55 |
—Second Report of the Registrar-General, p. 98.
[1547] Stark, Ed. Med. and Surg. Journ. LXXI. (1849), p. 388; W. Robertson, Month. Journ. Med. Sc. IX. (1849). The other outbreaks reported in that part of Scotland (ibid.) were slight—at Dalkeith, Haddington, Borrowstowness.
[1548] Easton, Glas. Med. Journ. V. 444.
[1549] Sutherland, Report of the Board of Health.
[1550] Sutherland, Report, u. s.; Grieve, Month. J. Med. Sc. IX. 777. Barker, ibid. 940 (gives good account of the stormy weather).
[1551] Month. Journ. Med. Sc. IX. 783, 857, 1011, X. 403.
[1552] Ibid. IX. 1009.
[1553] Sutherland, Report, u. s. The year 1847, in which there was no cholera, had been much more fatal in the chief towns of Scotland, than either 1848 or 1849, owing to the great prevalence of typhus (Stark):