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VITAL STATISTICS ; METEOROLOaY ; BRITISH 

 WHEAT SOLD; IMPORTATIONS OF CORN; 

 PRICES OF FOOD ; PAUPERISM. 



The matter is selected from the lieports of the riEOisTKAn-GENERAL ; from 

 Mr. GiiAisiiEu's Meteorological T^ihlcs, and Not?s on the Weather ; and 

 from Returns ff the Board of Tkade. 



Births and Df;ATns ix the First Six Months of 1865 in 

 England and AVales. 



In the frst qnarter the number of births was 104,287. The birth- 

 rate per annum, or proportion of children born to 100 persons 

 living, was o'768, against an average of 3-627. The birth-rate was 

 high beyond any example furnished by the forty quarters of the ten 

 years 1855-64. 



In the second quarter the births woi-e 192,921. The annual birth- 

 rate for the quarter was 3*691 per cent, against an average of 3-603. 

 It was remarkably high. In London, the birth-rate of the same 

 three months was 3-515 per cent. ; in Manchester, 3-624: ; in Livei-- 

 pool, 4-173; in Leeds, 4-497. In Glasgow it was as high as 4-604. 



In the Jirst quarter the number of deaths in England and Wales 

 was 140,646, being less than in the same period of 1864, when it 

 was 143,030, but much greater than in that of 1863, when it was 

 128,096. In the March quarter of four years, 1859-62, the number 

 varied little from 122,000. 



The annual rate of mortality (viz., deaths of the quarter x 4 to 

 100 persons living) was 2-728, against an average in ten March 

 quarters of 2-522. Since the March quarter of 1855, the returas 

 suppl}' no example of as higli a death-rate, with the exception of 

 the death-rate of the same quarter in last year, which was 2-773 per 

 cent. Bronchitis and pneumonia, scarlatina, fever, and small-pox, 

 prevailed both in town and countiy. The death-rate in the Welsh 

 division rose to 2-951, under the influence of small-pox, scarlatina, 



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