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affords evidence that the population of the past year
exceeded the above number. Confirmation of this is
furnished by an estimate based on the Birth-rate (after
the manner described in the Report for 1875) which
places the mean population of the past year at 221,095.
In consequence of the comparatively recent date of the
census, the difference between the two estimates in so
large a population is insufficient to materially affect the
calculations referred to, which, in order to avoid any
error of excess, have been based on the number
determined by the official method.
Births—Birth-rate—Rate of Natural Increase.—
The total births registered during the past year numbered
7889=4009 of males and 3880 of females. The birthrate
determined by the estimated population was 35.69
per 1000 persons living of all ages. The rate of natural
increase, i.e. the excess of births over deaths, was 18*26
per 1000, the average rate of the preceding ten years
having been 18.02 per 1000.
Deaths—Death-rate.—The total deaths registered
during the year were 3,851 in number; 1,895 were of
males and 1,956 of females. The death-rate, deduced
from the total deaths registered and the mean estimated
population, was 17.42 per 1,000 persons living. The
deaths of 14 inhabitants of this District occurred in
the Metropolitan Asylum District Hospitals, and
were registered in the District where the Hospitals
are situated; if these are included, as they justly
should be, in the calculation, the rate would still be
only 17.48 per 1,000.
The following table shews the birth-rates, deathrates,
and rates of natural-increase of the past and ten