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sidered as perfectly accurate, as there is no lying-in ward in
the district, so that many births registered in other districts
should really be considered as belonging to our own. This fact
has especially to be taken into consideration when dealing with
the percentage of infantile deaths compared with the number of
registered births.
The total Metropolitan birth-rate for the year was 30.0 per
1000. The total deaths which were registered in the district
during the year numbered 382, of which 176 were registered in
St. Saviour, and 20 in Christchurch. Included in this latter
number are 14 deaths which occurred in Christchurch Workhouse.
Of these 382 deaths 29 belonged to persons not residing
in the district, which have therefore to be substracted from the
total number, and then there have to be added the deaths
occurring outside the district among persons belonging to it.
These number 212. The corrected number of deaths for the
district is 565, which gives a death-rate of 22.27 per 1000 as
compared with a death-rate of the whole Metropolitan area of
18.5 per 1000. This, when multiplied by the factor for age and
sex distribution, gives the corrected death-rate of the district as
23.31 per 1000.
The excess of births over deaths for the year 1896 is 212 as
compared with 162 the previous year.

This gives us a percentage of deaths for each age period
as follows:—
28.8 per cent. of total deaths took place under the age of 1 year.
16.2 ,, ,, ,, between the ages of 1 and 5 years.
2.4 5 „ 15 „
2.6 „ „ „ „ 15 „ 25 „
34.3 „ „ „ „ 25 „ 65 „
15.4 over the age of 65 years.