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Still Births.
Legitimate 31 19 12 Rate per 1,000
Illegitimate 2 — 2 births—37.1
33 19 14
Deaths 784 Death-rate per 1,000 inhabitants—
11.1
Deaths from Puerperal causes 5 Rate per 1,000 births—5.6
Deaths Rate per 1,000 births
Puerperal Sepsis 3 3.4
Other Puerperal causes 2 2.2
Death-rate of Infants under 1 year of age.
All infants per 1,000 births 45
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate births 42
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate births 100
Deaths from Measles—all ages 1
Deaths from Whooping Cough 2
Deaths from Diarrhoea—under 2 years of age 7
POPULATION.
The Registrar General estimated the population at the end
of June, 1933 to be 70,300. This is a decrease of 340 as compared
with the estimated population at the end of June, 1932. As this
figure is used for other official purposes it has to be adopted for this
report, but I may be permitted to express the opinion that the
Registrar General has probably made an error. In ordinary circumstances,
it would be presumption on my part to differ from him,
as he is able to take a wider view of the subject, but as we have a
comparatively recent instance in which the Registrar General was
wrong and the local estimates more correct, I may give some of the
facts on which my opinion is based.
It will be recollected that before the last Census the Registrar
General supplied estimates of our population which turned
out to be much below the actual figure revealed at the Census.
The Registrar General estimated the population in 1929 and 1930
at 65,200. The population at the Census was 70,510.
The first comparison is that of the parliamentary electors.
In his memorandum, the Registrar-General warns us that in the
general population at the present time, while the number of adults
is increasing, the numbers below the age of 21 are declining. Speaking
generally, a high rate of electoral increase in a given area usually
denotes a much lower rate of population increase; a stationary