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YEARS.
Births.
Birth-rate.
Number of Deaths
from all Causes.
Death-rate.
Rate of Natural
Increase.
1869 248 26.6 133 14.9 12.8
1870 271 29.5 145 15.7 13.7
1871 275 28.9 151 15.8 13.0
1872 279 28.4 144 14.6 14.0
1873 320 30.6 125 13.3 18.3
1874 290 27.8 156 15.0 12.8
1875 292 27.3 167 15.7 11.6
1876 300 27.3 143 13.0 14.3
1877 351 31.1 170 15.0 16.0
1878 338 29.1 186 16.0 13.1
1879 327 27.4 179 15.0 12.2
1879 beyond the usual number, to compensate for the
shorter years preceding. The Table here presented compares
the year under review with the 10 preceding years.
It will be seen that the difference between the births and
deaths was 146, which represents the natural increase of
population for the year. The rate of this increase is 12.2
per thousand.
The death-rate of the year 1879 is probably, with the
exception of 1876, the lowest on the Table since the
discrepancy between the official population upon which
the death-rate has been calculated, and the real, was
greater during the former year than any other year of
the series.
The Table which follows is, in an abridged form, the
same as that employed by the Registrar-General, and also
arranged according to the classification of diseases drawn
up by the College of Physicians of London, for use in
certifying the causes of death. Some sub-classes which
appeared to me unnecessary, have been omitted, and others
which I deemed useful in classifying the causes of death,
adopted.