POPULATION. 



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but in this memorably calamitous year, 1854, cholera raged in 

 the colony for about four months, and not only were several per- 

 sons married in articulo mortis, but the dread created by the 

 hourly impending danger of almost sudden death, induced many 

 who were living in concubinage to submit to the holy rite ; hence 

 the disproportionate number of marriages in that year. 



Mortality. This is a subject of the greatest interest, and for 

 the analysis of which we fortunately possess more correct and pre- 

 cise data than for that of births. 



No 9. TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF DEATHS QUARTERLY, FOR BOTH 

 SEXES, OVER A PERIOD OP Six YEARS. 



13,908 being the grand total of deaths for six years, we have 

 2,318 as a yearly average. The whole population of the island 

 being estimated, for the same period, at 70,000 inhabitants, in 

 round numbers, we have the ratio of one death per 30 '20 in- 

 habitants. Captain Tulloch, in his " Statistical Report," &c., 

 gives the average mortality, among the slave population in the 

 British West India colonies, for a period of about fifteen years, as 

 1 per 33. In Jamaica and Nevis it was 1 per 40 and 41 ; in 

 Grenada and Tobago, 1 per 30 and 24 ; in Trinidad, 1 per 33. 



No. 10. TABLE SHOWING THE RATE OF MORTALITY IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES 

 AND CITIES. 



