YITAL STATISTICS; METEOROLOaY ; PRICES 

 OF FOOD; PAUPERISM; BRITISH WHEAT 

 SOLD ; IMPORTATIONS OF CORN AND 

 OTHER PRODUCE. 



The fads are selected from the Beports of the Registrar-General ; from 

 Mr. Glaisher's Meteorological Tables, and Notes on the Weather ; and 

 from Beturns of the Board of Trade. 



THE UNITED KINGDOM. 



The Eegisters of the United Kingdom show that 114,328 persons 

 married in the quarter that ended in June, 1865 ; that the births of 

 243,119 children, and the deaths of 148,167 persons of both sexes, 

 were registered in the three months ending on September 30tb. The 

 natural recorded increase of population in 92 days was 94,952, or 

 1032 daily. Exclusive of 11,490 foreigners, 53,564 emigrants sailed 

 from these islands in the September quarter. So about 582 emi- 

 gi'ants left daily ; and allowing for defects in registration, which has 

 only recently been established in Ireland, the increase in the home 

 population has been about 506 daily. 



The estimated population in 1865 of England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland, was 29,772,294. The death-rate was 1-974 per cent, in the 

 three months ending September 30th. 



During the three months scarlatina was epideunc in many parts 

 of England. Diarrhoea was prevalent and often fatal to children ; 

 and scattered cases of summer cholera were as usual fatal in unhealthy 

 districts. At the end of the quarter four deaths from cholera occurred 

 in Southampton, two of which were pronounced epidemic cholera. 

 The meteorology of the season was extraordinary, the potato was in 

 many places blighted, and the cattle were struck down by zymotic 

 disease ; yet the people were untouched by pestilence. While Mar- 

 seilles and Paris were smitten by cholera, London and the large 

 cities of the United Kingdom enjoyed immunity. 



Births and Deaths in the Last Six Months of 1865 in 

 England and Wales. 

 In the third quarter (July, August, September) the number of 

 births was 181,642, the highest number that has ever been registered 

 YOL. II, — S. S. A 



