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the usual proportion of title sexes has been reversed.
The death rate was only 12 5. A glance at the table
below will show that this is the lowest death-rate
in this sub-district for 11 years. Indeed, it is probable
that in no year, even in the days Avhen a very sparse
population occupied the area now covered with inhabited
houses, was the rate of mortality so low. This is not the
result of mere accident or absence of special forms of
disease, for Measles and Scarlatina, both occurred almost
epidemically during the year.
YEARS. Births. Birth-rate. Number of Deaths from all Causes. Death-rate. Rate of Natural Increase.
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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 .0 13.1
1879 327 27.4 179 15.0 12.2
1880 348 27.3 177 13.6 13.2
1881 340 25.5 167 12.5 12.9
The births exceeded the deaths by 173; this gives
a natural increase of the population of 12.9 per 1,000.
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.