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TABLE I.
The following Table shows the numbers of Births and Deaths
during the last 4 Quarters:—
Quarter ending
Births.
Deaths.
Excess of Births
over Deaths.
Total.
No. per
1000.
Total.
No. per
1000.
Total.
No. per
1000.
June 1867
674
27.8
365
15.0
209
12.8
Sept. 1867
696
29.8
426
17.5
270
12.3
Decern. 1867
585
25.0
451
18.6
134
6.4
March 1868
707
29.1
493
20.3
214
8.8
Per Annum
2662
27.9
1735
17.8
827
10.07
In the absence of an actual Census since 1861,
I have estimated the increase of Population upon
an assumption of the increase going on at the
same rate as in previous years. The population
up to April 1867, would in that case be 96,876;
and the death-rate, calculated on that basis, will be
17.8 per 1000. Some thickly populated Streets or
Districts, taken separately, may show a higher rate
of mortality. It is to be remembered that an
increasing density of population is generally attended
with an increase of the death-rate; so that
in future years most vigorous Sanitary measures
will be required to avert it. The Parish, however,
bears a most favourable comparison, at present,
with any other within the Metropolitan area.