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within the first year of their existence were, in the two
last years, exactly equal—viz., 28.
As regards the deaths from all causes amongst the outdoor
parochial poor of this Sub-district, it is only necessary
to observe that Table V. Appendix, gives a rate of mortality
to the number of cases treated of 16 in 181. The
rate of the preceding year was 18 in 174.
The deaths from violence and accidents during the year
were seven; of these, two (though sudden) were from
"natural causes," one the result of "congestion of the
brain from drinking ardent spirits," one from "accident on
a railway," and one (an infant) "found dead, but whether
born alive there was no evidence to show." Every one of
these cases, I need hardly say, became the subject of a
Coroner's inquisition.
Deducting these seven deaths from violence, the total
mortality, the result of disease alone, will be 142.
This number of deaths in a population of only 11,000
(and there are grounds for believing so unusual an increase
has taken place during the year from the influx of new
residents as to warrant a much higher estimate) would
place the rate of mortality as near as possible at 13 per
1000 living. This, I submit, is very satisfactory.
The excess of births over deaths was 147, so that I am
fully warranted in estimating the increase of population,
including both the natural increase and that by emigration,
at the figure I have put it. At all events this estimate
cannot be looked upon as an exaggerated one, seeing that
in my last year's Report the inhabitants of this Subdistrict
were considered as numbering 10,800.
THE SANITATION OF THE YEAR.
At the commencement of my Report I spoke briefly of
the benefits accruing from efficient sewerage. The construction
within the year of 6,158 feet of new sewers
and branch drains cannot have been accomplished without
bringing with it the greatest advantages to the Sub-
c