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Births— Birth-rate— Rate of Natural Increase.—
The number of births registered during the year was
7,582—3,882 of males, and 3,700 of females, yielding
according to the foregoing estimate of the population
the high birth-rate of 35.68 per 1,000 persons of all
ages. The average rate of the preceding ten years was
34.13 per 1,000. The births exceeded the deaths by
3,935, which number constitutes the natural increase of
the population, and is unusually high, producing an
annual rate of 18.51 per 1,000. The mean annual rate
for the preceding ten years was 16'07.
Deaths— Death-rate.— The deaths registered during
the year numbered 3,647; 1,802 were of males, and
1,845 of females. Determined in the preceding manner
the death-rate was 17.16 per 1,000 persons living on an
average during the year. The average annual rate of
the ten years 1871-80 was 18.06 per 1,000.
Lest it might be assumed that the unusual lowness
of the death-rate of the past year had been due to a
diminution of the registered mortality by the circumstance
that most of the deaths from Small-pox took place
in hospitals which are located without this district (all
deaths being registered in the district in which they
occur), it should be justly stated that 63 inhabitants of
this district died of that disease in the public hospitals.
By adding the deaths of these persons to the registered
deaths, the rate would still be 17.45 only per 1,000, or
0.45 only higher than the zero in Dr. Parr's health-scale,
above which deaths are held to be preventible in urban
districts; and it is 4.75 per 1,000 lower than the mean
rate of the nineteen provincial towns recorded in the