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Deaths and Death-rate.—The mortality from all causes
during the year 1884 amounted only to the low figure of 199.
This yields a death-rate of 13.7 per 1,000. We have reason
for congratulation that such an exceptionally good year
should follow the somewhat high mortality of last year.
From the table below the death-rate of this year will be found
exactly 1.0 less than the average of the eleven years 1874.84.
YEARS.
Births.
Birth.rate.
Number of deaths
from all classes.
Death.rate.
Rate of Natural
Increase.
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
1880 347 27.3 177 13.6 13.2
1881 340 25.5 167 12.5 12.9
1882 361 26.3 208 15.1 11.1
1883 349 24.7 241 17.1 7.6
1884 377 25.3 199 13.7 11.6
It is also nearly 7 per 1,000 less than the death-rate of
London, and 8 per 1,000 less than that of the 28 largest towns.
With one exception (Barrow in Furness) it is lower than any
of the death rates quoted in the Registrar General's summary.
The difference between the number of births and deaths
amounted to 168. This constitutes the natural increase of the
population and amounts to 11.6 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.