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enumeration. In 1911, 1,486 births and 205 deaths under 1 year
occurred; the resultant figure would be 1,281. In 1910, 1,475
births and 151 deaths under 1 year occurred. If the second
method, that is, abstracting the deaths in the second half of 1910
and the first half of 1911 from the births in the same period, the
resultant figure would be 1,285. enumerated figure at the
Census was 1,283. We estimate the numbers at the age-periods
under 1 year and between 1-2 years by this method, and assume
that the increase in the other age-periods has been in the same
ratio as in the last intercensal period, the death-rate per 1,000 living
at each period last year was as follows:—
Under 1 year. 1-2. 2-5. 5-15. 15-25. 25-45. 45-65- Over 65.
90 40 8 2.2 2.2 5 17.4 70
Incidentally, it might be mentioned that these figures show the
importance of a "factor for correction," before instituting a comparison
between the death-rate of one district and that of another.
As far as sanitary conditions are concerned, the persons in all the
age-periods are affected in a similar manner; but the death-rate
at the extremes of life are very much higher than those in the
middle periods. A district with an abnormal proportion of its
inhabitants living between the ages 5-45 would, therefore, have a
lower death-rate than another district which contained a higher
proportion of children and old people.