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Districts into which the City of Hobart Town is divided, 

 together with those of Queenborough and Glenorchy, the 

 number of whose inhabitants is known, the population at the 

 date of the census can be computed exactly, and the present 

 population can be easily found by calculation, on the as- 

 sumption that the increase is proportionate to that of the 

 whole population of the Island. But the population of the 

 Registration District of Launceston cannot be so readily 

 found, the Registration District not being conterminous with 

 any Electoral District. It consists of the Electoral Districts 

 within the boundaries of the town of Launceston, together 

 with a portion of the Electoral District of Selby, the number 

 of whose residents is not known. The town of Launceston, 

 according to the census, contained 10,668 persons, and I have 

 estimated the number residing in the portion of Selby which, 

 forms the remainder of the Registration District, at 1,500, 

 making the population of the whole of that district at the 

 date of the census, 12,168 ; and the increase since 1870 has 

 been calculated on the same assumption as before. For 1869 

 a slight deduction had to be made for the numbers shown by 

 the census of February 7, 1870 : for Hobart, the population 

 has therefore been estimated at 24,921 ; for Launceston, at 

 12,100 ; and for the whole Colony, 99,000. 



The first table (designated E) shows that while the average 

 percentage of deaths during the first year of life to births in 

 the year was 9*45 for the whole Colony, in the Hobart 

 Registration District it was 12 '93 ; in the Launceston District, 

 13'02 ; in the two together, forming the Urban Districts, 

 12'89 ; in the remainder of the Colony, or the Rural Districts, 

 7 '28. The difference in the mortality of the least healthy of 

 the Urban Districts, as compared with the Rural, the most 

 healthy — that is, between the maximum and minimum mor- 

 tality — was therefore 5'74 ; while the difference between the 

 rural rate — the minimum — and the general rate, was 2 "IT. 



Table F shows the percentage of deaths at each age to 

 deaths at all ages in the Urban and Rural Districts. Here 

 we see the curious fact that while for infants under 1 year 

 the proportion in the whole colony was 20*25, in Hobart, 

 18-14, in Launceston, 19*07, and in the two last collectively 

 (" Urban " rate), 18-47, in the Rural Districts it was 22-70. 

 The general rule was in this case reversed, the proportion of 

 deaths being greater in the country. So it was for the ages 

 2-3, 3-4, 4-5, and 5-10 ; while for " all other ages " there was 

 a considerable difference in favour of the country districts, the 

 general average being 69-87, the Urban rate 72-36, and the 

 Rural only 64-76 per cent. 



A comparison of the number of deaths at each age to 1,000 



