VITAL STATISTICS :— POPULATION ; BIETIIS ; DEATHS ; 
EMIGliATION; METEOEOLOGY; IMPORTATIONS OF 
GRAIN; SALES OF BRITISH WHEAT; PRICES OF 
CORN AND OTHER PRODUCE ; AND PAUPERISM, &c. 
[The facts are derived chiefly frcm the Reports of the Eegistkar-General ; 
the Meteorological Iteports of Mr. Glaisher; the Meturns of the Boaud 
OF Trade, and of the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports.] 
Population of the United Kingdom, estimated to the middle of 
the year 1870 (exclusive of islands in the British seas) : — 
Males .. .. 14,805,183 
Females 16,033,027 
30,838,210 
Englancl. Scotland. Ireland. 
Males .. .. 10,635,905 1,518,64c 2,650,638 
Females.. .. 11,454,258 1,704,197 2,874,572 
Total .. 22,090,165 3,222,837 5,525,210 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Births and Deaths in the Last Six Months of 1870. 
Summer Quarter (July, August, September). — Births registered were 
192,178. The annual birth-rate of the season to 1000 persons living 
was 34'5 ; the average during the ten corresponding summers of 
1860-69 was 34-1. 
Deaths registered were 124,258. The annual death-rate of the 
season per 1000 of population was 22-3, or 1*7 over the average, 
"which was 20*6. 
The mortality of the quarter experienced by the people inhabiting 
the chief towns was at the annual rate of 24-0 per 1000 of popula- 
tion, the average being 23"0. In distficts that comprise small towns, 
villages, and open country, it was 20'0, the average being 17'6. 
The people married during the quarter at the annual rate of 15-8 
per 1000 of population, while the average of ten preceding quarters 
was 16"4. The summer marriage-rate has declined every year since 
1865. 
Best potatoes were Gs. per cwt. at Waterside Market, Soutliwark ; 
the prices in the two previous summers having been 7s. 4(1. and 
.5s. 6d. per cwt. Beef, by the carcase, was 6c?. per lb. at the Metropolitan 
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