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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Deaths and Death
Rate.
During the year, 492 deaths were registered
as occurring within the district, 261 being of males, and
231 of females, giving a death-rate of 10.0 per 1000,
being the lowest death-rate recorded during the past
ten years.
To arrive however at the corrected death-rate, the
deaths of non-parishioners occuring within the district
(44 in number) must be excluded and those of parishioners
occuring outside (63) included, representing a
a total of 511, and producing a corrected death-rate of
parishioners 10.2 per 1000 of the population.
Table I. gives the number of births and deaths, birthrates
and death-rates, and rates of natural increase during
the past ten years.