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4
HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION
of the entire district.
The deaths registered in the entire district during
1862, were 50 less than during 1861, the numbers being
respectively 1,343 and 1,393.
Building operations are rapidly progressing throughout
the district, and the number of new houses erected since
the census of 1861 must have been very considerable. The
increase of population, therefore, by immigration alone,
may be assumed to have been correspondingly large.
If, however, the population has increased only in the
same proportion as it was found to have done in the
interval of 1851-61, which was 38.64 per 1,000 annually,
it would, in the middle of the year 1862, (the year under
consideration) amount to 72,832, or to an increase, since
the last census, of 2,451 persons.
mortality.
The death-rate for the past year calculated upon
the above basis, is 18.43 per 1,000 living; the birthrate,
30.89 per 1,000; and the rate of natural increase,
1246 per 1,000.
Comparing the death-rate for the past year with that
of the average of the 10 preceding years, (which was 19.57
per 1,000 living) it is found that there was, in round
numbers, less mortality by one in every 1,000, in favour
of 1862.
In February, 1863, in an Annual Report of that date,
the Registrar General writes:—"The south districts have
achieved for themselves a marked improvement." This