POPULATION. 

 TABLE No. 14. 



187 



Thus, of a grand total of 1,476 deaths, 610 took place under 

 twelvemonths, which gives the rate of one death per 2*42, that is 

 to say, that of 242 deaths which took place from birth to ten years, 

 100 occurred between the ages of one and twelve months. The 

 rate is very moderate between one and three, and also between 

 three and six months, but very large between one and five years, 

 this being not only the period of weaning, but also that wherein 

 children are subject to the many diseases incident to infancy and 

 early youth. 



If, with the above data, we seek to establish a comparison be- 

 tween the number of births and deaths, we have the following 

 result : 



Births .... 13-619 

 Deaths 13-908 



Difference 



279 



The difference 279 is in favour of deaths, that is to say, that 

 within six years the population would have decreased, from natural 

 causes, by 48 every year. But this result is not, and cannot be, 

 correct, because, as I have already stated, the returns of births are 

 not regularly made, whilst those of deaths are generally correctly 

 registered. On the other hand, by taking the three periods 

 already referred to, we obtain the following result : 



Births (Table No. 7) . . . . 2,028 

 Deaths (Table No. 11) . . 1 175 



Difference 



853 



