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English, 3754 of Scotch, and 8C41 of Irish origin ; 746G were 
foreigners. The destination of 13,210 of the English emigrants was 
the United States; 10G3 went to the North American Colonies; 
2662 to Australia; and 1664 to other places. 
Since the autumn of 1868 beef has risen 11 percent, in price, 
and mutton 18 per cent. Best potatoes averaged 70s, per ton at the 
Waterside Market, South wark, being cheaper by 17s. 6d. and 35s. 
per ton than in the corresponding quarters of 1869 and 1868. 
The public health has not recovered from the depression of the 
summer ; but the mortality in the 20 great cities of the United 
Kingdom is less than it was in the autumn quarters of the two 
previous years. In London the mortality-rate was between 2 and 
3 in 1000 less than it was in the previous year. The mortality was 
low in Portsmouth, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Hull, Sunder- 
land, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It was high in Norwich, Bristol, 
and Leicester; in Liverpool the mortality rose to 38 in 1000. 
What diseases were fatal in Liverpool ? Scarlet fever, fever in its 
various forms, small pox, measles, and whooping-cough ; besides 
various forms of violence, to which 196 persons succumbed. 
The United Kingdom in the Year 1870. 
In the United Kingdom 1,057,622 births and 680,220, deaths were 
registered during the yea,r ; and the excess of births over deaths, 
amounting to 377,402, would represent the natural increase of the 
population, were it not that registration in Ii-eland is so exceedingly 
defective as to require a correction of the registered numbers for 
that division of the Kingdom, the effect of which is to make the 
natural increase for the year 387,117. The returns of the Emigration 
Commissioners show that 207,306 emigrants of home origin sailed 
during the year from ports at which there are emigration officers ; 
deducting these from the natural increase by excess of births, the 
actual population increment for the year is 179,811, which is at 
the rate of 493 per day. It must be understood, however, that this 
result is only approximative, as an indefinite number of persons 
leave this country every year whose departure is not registered, 
and in the same way there is an influx from abroad which may or 
may not balance the outflow. The corrected birth-rate of the year 
was 36, and the death-rate 23 per 1000 persons living. Emigration 
fell oft" by 1087 as compared with the previous year, but the returns 
for both years were much higher than for any previous year since 
1854. Of 256,940 emigrants, 107,926 were of English, 23,471 of 
Scotch, and 75,909 of Irish origin; 49,634 were of foreign extrac- 
tion. The destination of 196,075 emigrants was the United States, 
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