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VITAL STATISTICS FOR THE 



PER I,000 PERSONS LIVING. 



DEATH-RATES PER I,000 OF POPULATION IN THE VARIOUS SUB- 

 REGISTRATION DISTRICTS. 



a Including the County Asylum. 



There is no doubt that the death-rates have been considerably 

 affected by the influenza epidemic which prevailed in the spring. In 

 some parts of the county the medical practitioners assert that fully 

 50 per cent, of the population were attacked. The number of deaths 

 directly attributable to the disease was small, but there is every reason 

 to believe that indirectly it considerably increased the mortality. 



