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where the birth rate figures abnormally high on
the present estimated population, no correction
being obtainable. The birth rate for the whole
district is therefore 23.9, while for England and
Wales it is 29.4. The infantile mortality, i.e., the
ratio of deaths of children under one year of age
to one thousand births is 127.6, that for England
and Wales being 161. The excess of births over
deaths is 147. In the following tables I have enendeavoured
to differentiate these statistics as
amongst the various sub-districts; but for the reasons
I have mentioned I have not been able to
make them so approximately correct as I might
otherwise have done, notwithstanding this, they
are interesting for purposes of comparison.