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ANNUAL REPORT,
Showing Summary of Births, Deaths, Vaccinations, Sanitary Statistics
and Improvements, Inspections of Bakehouses Slaughter-houses
and Cow-yards, Water Analysis, and Cattle Plague, for One Year,
from April lst, 1865, to March 31st, 1866, with Comparative
Statement of Eight foregoing Years.
Births. The number in the whole parish was 2470.
In the years ending
March 31st 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865
the numbers were . 2165 2288 2300 2119 2498 2411 2412 2452
In the Hanover and
Mayfair Sub-Districts,
the births
this year were 696.
In the years . . 1858 1859 I860 1861 1863 1868 1864 1865
the numbers were. 660 705 710 656 735 661 694 709
In the Belgrave SubDistrict
this year
there were 1774 . 1505 1583 1590 1463 1763 1750 1718 1743
Deaths. The gross
number in the
whole parish has
been 2030, whereas
in the foregoing 8
years they were . 1768 1838 1837 1769 1965 1882 2054 2015
Gross Death-rate. Estimating
the population
of the whole
parish as 91,500,
the gross deathrate
was just over
22 per 1000 living. 21.3 21.75 21.4 21.6 22.2 20.9 22.4 22
Excess of Births over
Deaths, 440 in the
whole parish 397 450 463 350 533 529 358 398
Estimated Population. The rate at which people die per cent.
or per thousand, in any given year and in any given place, is calculated
by dividing the number of deaths by the number of persons
supposed to be living in that place in that year. Now, the
whole population of our Parish increased, between the census of
1851 and that of 1861, from 73,236 to 87,747. This increase is, in
round numbers, at the rate of 1,500 per annum ; hence we take for
granted that the population in 1858 was 83,000, in 1859 84,500, in
1860 86,000, in 1861 87,500, and so on increasing at the rate of
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