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general ratio of mortality, compared with that of the population of other 

 parts of the world. A statement lately published in the Delhi Gazette, 

 giving the population, births, marriages, and deaths of that city for the past 

 year (1833), throws some light on the subject, but the term is too short to 

 afford a proper view of the state of the case, and the numbers and details 

 not sufficiently precise to give a positive result for other similar places. 

 From this statement, it would appear that the mortality at Delhi, though 

 much greater than that experienced in the northern latitudes of Europe, is 

 somewhat more favorable than that of the Roman States and Ancient 

 Venetian Provinces, being a fraction less than one in twenty-eight souls 

 per annum ; the latter being stated at one in twenty-seven. The ratio, 

 however, greatly exceeds that of Europe altogether, which by some recent 

 returns is one in forty-four for the north, and one in thirty-six for the 

 south ; for better immediate reference, the Delhi statement, just referred 

 to, is here given as published by the Civil Authorities of that City. 





Males. 



Females. 



Total. 







41,526 



81,118 







18,189 



38,742 





.... 60,145 



59,715 



119,860 





Births. 



Deaths. 



Marriages, 







2,168 



601 





.... 1,731 



2,080 



527 



Total, 



. . . 3,733 



4,248 



1,128 



Deaths. 



Males. 



Females. 



Total. 







505 



1,109 







276 



546 





360 



303 



663 





934 



996 



1,930 





. 2,168 



2,080 



4,248 



