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necessary, therefore, to make correction for such institutions
by eliminating their mortality, together with their
population, from the calculation. The death-rate for the
past year, after due correction made in the manner indicated,
is found to have been 20.21 per 1,000 persons
living. This is unusually high, for by a similar calculation
the mean annual death-rate during the preceding
ten years was 17.84 per 1,000, and closely corresponds
with a similar average of the ten years 1851-61. The
mean annual average death-rate of this locality during
the past 20 years has not exceeded 18 per 1,000 of the
population.
The following Table contains a summary of all the
causes of death, arranged in accordance with the classification
of the Registrar-General, showing the sex, social
position and age at death at different periods, and particularizing
the several diseases of the Zymotic class:—