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The only other remark it will be at all necessary to
offer upon this Table will be, that the deaths amongst the
middle and industrious classes combined, rose from 413 in
1872, to 428 in the year under review, whilst amongst the
nobility and gentry and amongst the professional and
merchant classes, the mortality was less than was noted in
the Table of my last report by as many as 22.
The absence of all record of deaths from Small-pox
in the present Table is rather a gratifying circumstance,
notwithstanding it is found that the mortality from several
of the non-Zymotic diseases has increased very materially.
For example, the deaths due to Tubercular diseases have
risen from 54 to 61, those resulting from Heart diseases
from 20 to 27, and, greatest of all, those from diseases of
the Respiratory organs, from 75 to 93 deaths.
Increase of Population.—Death-rate, &c.—The exact
condition of the population as to numbers is not easily
ascertained but through an annual census, because the
increase by immigration and the loss by emigration is
so variable, but an approximation may be arrived at
by calculating the addition that has been probably made
to the natural increase by assuming a number for the amount
of immigration and natural increase together on the principle
adopted by the Registrar General. By this method
the population will be shown to have increased from
28,154 in the middle of 1872, to 28,799 in the middle of the
past year, and the deaths being 475, it will give 1 death
to, as near as possible, every 60 of the inhabitants, or a
death-rate of 16'4 per 1000 persons living. Seeing that
the death-rate was as high as 22 per 1000 iu the year of
the last census, and 17*1 in 1872, the result of the above
estimate cannot be viewed as altogether unsatisfactory.
Disease and Mortality amongst the Union Poor.—The
Table No. V. in the appendix, in the column relating to
this parish, gives 69 deaths as the result of 890 cases of
sickness and accident treated by me as the District Medical
Officer.