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Vital Statistics.
Population. The mean number of inhabitants of this
sub-district estimated to the middle of the part year
amounted to 47,161. This estimate is based on the
assumption that an increase of the population has taken
place since the period of the last Census in the same
proportion as that which obtained during the preceding
ten years; and as the Census was so recently taken
there is little room for doubt of its accuracy.
births, Birth-rate, Rate of Natural Increase.
1597 births, 814 of males and 783 of females,
were registered during the year; they were
185 more than in the year previous, and allowing
for increase of population, 82 more than the preceding
decennial average. The birth-rate, which was unusually
high, was 35.48 per 1,000, and the rate of natural increase
21 per 1,000 persons of all ages.
Mortality. The total deaths registered were 780; 389 of
males, 391 of females. The number closely corresponds
with the average corrected for increase of population.
No less than 142 of the number occurred in the following
public institutions, viz.:—In the Middlesex County
Lunatic Asylum, 93; in the Hospital for Incurables, 13 ;
in St. Peter's Hospital, 4; in the Workhouse, 18; in the
Prison, 11; and in the Royal Patriotic Asylum for
Girls, 3.
All the deaths with their causes are enumerated in the
following Table. They are arranged in classes in
accordance with the system of the Registrar-General,
showing the number in each class, and as regards the
several diseases of the Zymotic class, the number of each
disease, together with the age at death at eight periods,
and the sex and social position of the deceased;—