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Death-rate. The death-rate of the past year determined
from the foregoing estimated population, after correction
made for the public institutions by which the
death-register is unduly raised, was 14.48 per 1,000.
This rate is 1 47 less than that of the year preceding,
and 2.52 less than that of the healthiest of the rural
districts. If the deaths that occurred in hospitals and
other public institutions situated without the Sub-district
were included the rate would be 18.1 per 1,000, but as
has been explained in previous Reports, this calculation
cannot be justly accepted inasmuch as while it includes
the deaths of parishioners who have died without the
Sub-district, it does not exclude the deaths of nonparishioners
who have died within the Sub-district, the
number of which there is no means of correctly ascertaining,
but which may be assumed to approximate the
number of deaths in out-lying institutions.
The Birth and Death-rates for the past and ten preceding
years are compared in the next Table:—