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received an addition by births of 2,096 children. Without
making any deduction for the number of deaths in the
Workhouse, which is situated in this Sub-district, of persons
not belonging to the parish, the excess of births over
deaths will be little short of 1000, viz., 975. The deaths
of non-parishioners in the Workhouse numbered 75, which
reduces the number of deaths, so to speak, proper to the
parish to 1,046, and this latter calculation gives an increase
to the population of 1,050.
There can be no doubt the increase by immigration was
also very large, seeing that as many as 312 new houses
have been erected during the past year. The estimated
number of persons to each house is nine; assuming therefore,
that only two-thirds of the 312 dwellings became inhabited
by strangers during the year, the nine persons to
each house would give an increase from this source alone
of 2,106, and if this number be added to the correctly
ascertained natural increase, it would bring the figures to
3,156. If this calculation be anything like correct, it
cannot be said that 75 deaths in excess of the number
registered in 1868, affords any very great indication of the
Sub-district having become in reality less healthy than
previously reported, especially when it is considered that
the past year was quite an exceptional one, in respect to
the fatality of Epidemic diseases throughout the country.
The table which follows will afford the usual information
as to the ages, sex and social positions of those who died
in this Sub-district during the year we are considering.