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confidence in the method used, or suggest some other more
correct means of calculating progressive increase. I have
been accustomed to add 2½ per cent. per annum, but I
believe that in the last two years that allowance is insufficient.
The Tables I have used would admit, I am aware of some
improvement, but the advantage of uniformity is great where
tables are used for statistical comparison, and for the sake
of that advantage I have not deviated from the forms used in
the past years.
The first Table contains a statement of the Births and
Deaths which have been registered in the Hamlet.

The second,—the Ward population, acreage, population to
the acre, the mortality in the different Wards, the sex of
those who died, and the rate of deaths per 1000 persona
living.