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VITAL STATISTICS OF GIVEN AREAS ARRANGED
ACCORDING TO DENSITY OF POPULATION.
In Table No. 22 are given the Vital Statistics of certain
areas in the district, each of which while fairly homogeneous in
class and density of population upon area, is different in these
respects from those with which it is compared. In the table
these areas are arranged in order of increase in density of
population.
Although, as will be seen, birth.rates, infectious disease rates,
death.rates and infantile mortality rates tend to increase with
increased density of population, this is by no means uniformly
so.
The areas are too small to base reliable inferences upon on
the returns of one year, but it may be said that generally where
there is any breach in the regularity of increase in the rates
concurrently with increasing density of population, there is a
more rapid decrease in the social level of the population. This
will be obvious by a glance at the skeleton reference map
accompanying the table.