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other reasons it is thought best to pursue the same course
as was done in the last Report, and whilst deducing the
Death-rate for the entire district by Dr. Farr's method, to
leave it to each Health Officer to offer his own explanations
of any exceptional circumstances which may appear
to him to warrant a different principle of computation
being applied to his own particular locality. Taking,
then, the enumerated population at the last census
(1871), and adding to such population 3¼ times the annual
rate of increase which prevailed between the last and
preceding census, it will at once bring the figures to apply
to the middle of the year under review, and will give a
population to this extensive District at that time of 142,799.
The deaths in the year having amounted to 2,796, it
follows that a mortuary rate for the entire district of 19.5
per thousand living is deducible. This death-rate, it
should be observed, is two per thousand higher than that
of the previous year, but seeing that that year was an
exceptional one in respect to the fatality attending many
of the Zymotic class of diseases, and seeing also that the
death-rate for the whole of London, calculated in precisely
the same way, was 22.5 per thousand, it is submitted that
the statistical result referred to is anything but unsatisfactory.