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6
REPORT,
1882.
HEALTH AND SANITARY CONDITION OP
THE ENTIRE DISTRICT.
During the year 1882, this District maintained a high
state of health, second only to that of the preceding year
which was accompanied by the lowest rate of mortality
ever recorded in these Reports. The less exalted
vitality of the past year was due to a greater prevalence
and fatality of epidemic diseases; these were chiefly
Measles, Scarlatina, Diphtheria and Whooping-cough,
the last named having been, as in the Metropolis
generally, the most fatally prevalent of that class of
diseases. The following statistics will be found on
examination to present trustworthy evidence of the
above conclusions.
Vital Statistics.
Population.—The number of inhabitants of this
District, estimated from the rate of increase which
prevailed during the last inter-census decennium,
according to the method employed by the RegistrarGeneral,
amounted at the middle of the year 1882 to
221,029, with a density of 18.8 persons to an acre. The
disproportionate increase in the number of births
however, which has taken place in the short space of
time that has elapsed since the period of the last census,