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Report of the Medical Officer of Health
For the Year ending 31st December, 1894.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my Annual Report for the
year ended the 31st December, 1894.
The total number of births registered was 794 (394 males, 400
females), equal to a birth-rate of 26.4 per thousand per annum.
The total number of deaths registered was 310 (l68 males and
142 females), equal to a death-rate of 10.3 per thousand living
per annum, taking the population at 30,000 (the estimated population
at Midsummer, 1894).
It is with great satisfaction I have to state that the death-rate
for the year 1894 was lower than it has been for the last 18
years.
The following are the death-rate since 1877:—
1877 11.4
1878 14.0
1879 14.9
1880 14.7
1881 13.8
1882 14.9
1883 12.6
1884 13.1
1885 12.8
1886 12.6
1887 12.4
1888 10.8