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Regarding the vital statistics, i.e., facts and
figures dealing with population, births, deaths,
causes of deaths, &c., the principal details are to
be found in the four Tables at the end of the
Report, and are those required to be made out by
the Local Government Board, on forms supplied
by them. The particulars of the past year are
added to those of former years, dating from the
time these tables were instituted, and for the
purpose of comparison they are of interest, as
showing the fluctuations of mortality or births,
and the incidence of disease, especially in the
different localities comprising the district.
It is well to mention year by year, for the
information of new members of the Council and
also for those new residents who may take an
intelligent interest in such matters, that the deaths
dealt with are not exclusively those that are
registered as occurring only in the district itself
during the year, but are the "corrected" returns.
The "corrections" consist in eliminating the
deaths of "non-residents" occurring in public
institutions within the district and transferring
them to the localities whence they came, and
in including those of this district who have died in
public institutions elsewhere without the district.
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