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4
HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION OF THE
ENTIRE DISTRICT.
A greatly improved condition in the health of this District,
as indicated by a much reduced death-rate, a high
birth-rate, and by a general diminution of all the principal
diseases of the epidemic class, characterized the year 1867.
This will be fully shewn by an examination of the tables
embodied in the local summaries, and of those annexed by
way of Appendix to this report, in which will be found
recorded all the statistical information necessary for illustrating
the condition of each sub-district, as well as that
of the entire District.
The total number of deaths in the District during the
past year was 1,937—944 of males, and 993 of females.
The total number of births was 3,614—1,858 of males and
1,756 of females.
The rate of mortality during the same period was 22.34
per 1000 persons living. That of the year 1866 was 24.97
per 1000. This calculation is based on the assumption
that the population increased during the past year in the
same ratio as it is found to have done between the census
of 1851 and that of 1861.
According to a similar calculation the birth-rate was
41.68 per 1000, and the rate of natural increase 19.34 per
1000 of the entire population.