Comment: The mortality rates for boys and girls who had passed their first year of life but not yet reached 5 peaked in 1863, but then proceeded to halve
every couple of decades throughout the next century. The 1918 influenza pandemic briefly returned mortality rates to 1900 levels.
Method: Mortality rates were downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (see www.mortality.org or
www.humanmortality.de)
on 4 December 2009. The plotted lines connect unsmoothed values.
Comment: The mortality rates for boys and girls who had passed their first year of life but not yet reached 5 peaked in 1863, but then proceeded to halve every couple of decades throughout the next century. The 1918 influenza pandemic briefly returned mortality rates to 1900 levels.
Method: Mortality rates were downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (see www.mortality.org or www.humanmortality.de) on 4 December 2009. The plotted lines connect unsmoothed values.