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tality was the result. There are only two instances, since the 
commencement of the national registration, in which the winter 
death-rate was so low as it was in the early months of 1868. In the 
winter of 184G it was 2-157 per cent.; in 1856 it was 2'179. In 
1850 and 1857 it was respectively 2-261 and 2-298. In the remain- 
ing twenty-six seasons it ranged from 2-350 per cent, to 2-910. 
The leturns both of town and country testified to the higher con- 
dition of liealth enjoyed by their inhabitants. In the large town 
districts the rate of mortality was 2-403 per cent., the average being 
2-761. In districts that comprise small towns, villages, and open 
country it was 2-012, the average being 2-350. It is a subject for 
congratulation that at a time when commerce was depressed, pro- 
visions dear, and the resources on which the working classes depend 
for food and warmth were in many parts straitened or destroyed, 
the rigours of an inclement winter were not added to their other 
privations. 
Fiom ports in the United Kingdom there went in the quarter 
25,986 emigrants, of whom 7926 were persons of English origin, 
1917 were Scotch, 12,132 were Irish, and 4011 foreigners. Of the 
total emigration 23,528 persons, half of whom were of Irish birth, 
embarked for the United States ; 57 for British North America ; 
1319 for the Australian colonies. 
Spring Quarter (^Apil, May, June). — Births registered were 202,892. 
The annual birth-rate was 3-764 per cent. ; the average of ten 
springs (1858-67) being 3-637. 
Deaths registered were 109,984. The annual death-rate was 
2-040 per cent.; the average often springs (1858-67) being 2-220. 
This is the lowest death-rate that has occurred in the spring 
season within the 30 years experience of the national registration. 
The influence of the weather, which continued unusually fine, 
appears to have been more decidedly favourable in country than in 
town; for the death-rate in the chief towns was 2-220 per cent, 
against an average of 2-353 ; while in the small towns and rural 
districts it was 1-804, the average being 2-057. The mortality of 
Manchester was 2-766 ; that of ShefiBold, 2-634 ; and of Liverpool, 
2-576 per cent. In Binningham the rate was 2-066, and was rather 
lower than that of London. 
The total number of emigrants in the quarter (ended 30th June) 
was 82,068. Of these, 18,759 were of English origin, who, with 
the exception of about 5000, went to the United States. Of the 
28,829 Irish who emigrated, a still larger proportion, namely 26,262, 
were bound to the same destination. Of the total emigration about 
67,000 persons went to the United States, about 11,000 to British 
