Excerpt from The Annual Monitor for 1907: Or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1901 Those who find interest in the statistical table will notice a striking decline in the average age at the time of death. This is in large measure the result of an unusual amount of infant and juvenile mortality, for which it is not easy to account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.