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country is furnislied by table H, showing the deaths at each 

 age to 1,000 persons at the corresponding ages, the numbers 

 living being calculated on the supposition that the proportions 

 continue d the same as they -were at the date of the last census. 

 The result may be most clearly exhibited as follows : — 



The difference as regards infants under 1 year, between the 

 mortality in Launceston and Hobart Registration Districts 

 was 21-85 per 1,000 ; between Launceston and the Rural 

 Districts, 85 05 ; between Hobart and the Rural Districts, 

 63 "20 ; and between the Urban Districts taken together, and 

 the Rural, 70-45 per 1,000. The rate in the Launceston Dis- 

 trict was more than double that of the country districts. The 

 mortality at all ages, except 2-5, was greater in the Laun- 

 ceston than in the Hobart District. Between 1 and 2 the 

 Launceston rate was more than treble the country rate. 

 Between and 5 it was more than double. Between and 

 10 it was also more than double. For all other ages it was 

 nearly treble. 



Taking the whole country, at the age 0-1, 95-66 died in 

 every 1,000 at the same age living; at 1-2, 19-70; at 0-5, 

 26-78; at 5-10, 2-57; at 0-10, 1456; at all other ages, 13-46. 

 In Victoria, in 1873, the deaths (taking the mean between 

 males and females, with the former reservation) at 0-5 were 

 39 36, being 12-58 more than in Tasmania. At 5-10 the 

 Victorian rate was about 5-31, against our 2-57, The mean 

 of males and females for 34 years (1838-71) in England 

 was — 0-5, 67-6 ; 5-10, 8-6. The mean of males and 

 females in Scotland for 1870 was— 0-1, 14093 ; 1-2, 66-96 ; 

 0-5, 58-88 ; 5-10, 10-13. That means that about 45 in 

 every thousand infants are saved in Tasmania, as com- 

 pared with Scotland, in the first year of life ; 47 in the 

 second ; 32 children under 5 years ; and between 7 and 8 

 children from 5 to 10 ; or, to put it in another way, taking 

 Tasmania as the standard, the excess of mortality in Scotland 

 was nearly as follows : — 0-1, 47 per cent.; 1-2, 240 per cent.; 

 0-5, 120 per cent.; 5-10, 294 per cent. 



