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year under review. In 1856 the number of births was 527,
but in the past year it was 777, or more by 250 than it
stood at twelve years ago, and nearly 160 above the average
of the previous eleven years. It is somewhat singular, however,
that the marriages were fewer by 66 in the past
than in the previous year, and can be accounted for only
by the year 1866 being altogether an exceptional one in
this particular. In respect to the deaths, the gradual increase
observable in the numbers from year to year, is of
course due to the corresponding increase of the population.
Statistics of Mortality.—The number of deaths registered
in the past year was 451, (males 208, females 243)
the females greatly preponderating, as was the case in the
preceding year.
Of the births, the preponderance is found to be on the
side of the males by as many as 19—the male births
numbering 398, and the female 379.
Taking into account both the natural increase and that
from immigration, the present population of the Sub-district
may, I think, be very fairly estimated at, in round
numbers, 25,500.
Believing this to be as nearly correct an estimate as it
is possible to arrive at, I calculate the death rate as slightly
over 17 per 1000 living.
The amount of mortality amongst infants and children,
as well as the sex, age and social position of all the persons
whose deaths have been registered in the Sub-district
within the year 1867, will be readily ascertained by the
usual table which follows.—