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The birth rate for the year was 38 per 1,000, and the death
rate 25.9 per 1,000. The birth rate of the Metropolis for the same
period was 36.5 per 1,000, and the death rate 23.3 per 1,000.
Both births and deaths were above the averages of the last ten
years, the former by 179, the latter by 186. There were 505
marriages registered, which number was 68 below the last decennial
average. The birth rate (38 per 1,000) exceeded the average of the
last ten years by 2.7 per 1,000. The death rate (25.9 per 1,000)
exceeded the average of the last ten years by 2.9 per 1,000. The
nearest approach to it was in 1875, whent it was 25.8 per 1,000.
The death rate of the Eastern group of Districts during the last ten
years averaged 25.2 per 1,000.
The deaths of children under 1 year constituted 25 per cent of
the total mortality, the last decennial average having been 26.9—
they were therefore 1.9 below that average.
The per centage of deaths of children under 1 year to
registered births was 17, the average of the last ten years having
been 17.3.
The deaths of children under 5 years of age constituted 45.7
per cent. of the total mortality, which, though 3.6 per cent. below
the decennial average, was .7 per cent. above the number of deaths
registered among the same class in 1878. Compared with that year
there has been a decrease of 45 in the number of deaths from
certain of the Zymotic diseases taken as a class, an increase of 70