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SECTION 2.
The estimated population of the district is 16603.
BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE,
There were 286 births registered in the district, one of
which was illegitimate. To these are added 5 more, 3 of
them being illegitimate, sent me by the Registrar General,
giving a total of 291. This number is definite decrease on
that of last year, the total then being 337. The corrected
birth rate, estimated as already explained upon the population
for 1914, is 18.43; the uncorrected, that is, the rate of
those actually registered in the district, estimated by the
same method, is 18.11.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The number of deaths registered in the district was 104;
the number was 120 last year. There were 6 deaths of nonresidents
registered in the district, and 31 deaths of residents
occurred outside the district. After adding the residents to
the number actually registered, and deducting the nonresidents,
the corrected number is 129, and the death rate
7.76.
Diseases of the respiratory organs caused 30 deaths,
namely:—Phthisis 11, Bronchitis 4, Pneumonia 13, and
other diseases of the respiratory organs, not classified, 2.
Principal
causes of
death
Clancer caused 15 deaths, all being residents of the
district. The ages and sex were:—
Male: 47, 79, 53, 67, 70, 59, 43.-7.
Female: 84, 81, 67, 57, 52, 61, 58, 45.-8.
Last year there were 7 male and 15 female deaths from
this disease.