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Name of the Class
No. of children belcw 10 per 100 women of child-bearing age 1
Total No. of Old Women

Kaliparaj ......
. 172
53

LJialiparaj ......
14*1
89

The table makes it evident that the higher the ratio
of children under 10 to females of child-bearing age, the
lesser the number of women who survive the maximum
limit of that age. Thus the dangers of frequent child-
bearing are obvious.

Average Expectation oj life : Unfortunately, what is
true of the Kaliparaj seems to be true of the village as a
whole. In the latter case too, the high birth-rate has
meant a low average expectation of .life. According to
Dr. Farr's formula, * the average expectation of life for
this village comes to 26.9 years.

Main features and Causes of a high death-rate : Let
us now consider the causes of a high death-rate. The
most important feature of this high death-rate is a high
rate of infant mortality. Taking the last five years when
there was neither famine nor plague and examining the
figures carefully, we get the following results :-

Year
Total No. of Births
Total No. of Infantile Deaths
Infantile Deaths per mille

1922
97
13
144*3

1925
74
12
162-2

1924
91
21
230-8

1925
112
14
125

1926
70
22
314-3

Total
444
82
184-7

1 This age period has been assumed to be 15—40 years.
2 Dr. Farr's formula for determining the average expectation of tife is:
Average expectation of life (|x j)+(f X-i)
where dam death-rate and b»birth-rate per unit of population; referred
to in Newsholme's Vital Statistics p. 301, (1899 Edition).