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The registered births exceed the registered deaths by 2321, so that if our population
is as estimated, 181,896, it is probable that our population has received by
immigration about 6340 persons during the year.
The table of sickness among the poor (Table III.) is more satisfactory than the
mortality tables. The total number of new cases of disease there recorded is 28,816,
being a diminution upon the disease of last year to the extent of more than a tenth,
namely, 3610 cases. When the tables of 1863 and 1864 are further compared, the
improvement becomes still more obvious, for, with the'single exception of measles,
there is no important class of maladies which does not exhibit a smaller number of
cases in the table appended to the present report.
DISTRICT MORTALITY.
I propose saying very little upon this subject upon the present occasion. The
death-rate in each of the 35 districts, as calculated upon Table II., and of the three
groups into which they may be distributed iu accordance with the character |[ of
each is seen in the following table.
The mean of the first group is chiefly vitiated by the increasa in populate n.
In the third group, always the most important for us, the Irish courts maintain
The First group ombraccs the more wealthy districts, of which the numbers are not underlined,
on my map. Those marked thus (*) have, by the erection of new buildings, greatly increased in
population sinco the census; so that wherever a district is thus marked it mast, be understood that the
death-rate, as I give it, is considerably above the true death-rate.
Tho Second group embraces those districts with a more mixed population, of which the numbers are
singly underlined on the map.
The Third group embraces those with a population more or less poor and negligent, doubly underlined
on the map.