VITAL STATISTICS: — POPULATION; BIETHS; DEATHS; 
EMIGRATION; METEOROLOGY; IMPORTATIONS OF 
GRAIN; SALES OF BRITISH WHEAT; PRICES OF 
CORN, &c.; AND PAUPERISM. 
[TAe facte are derived chiefly from the Eeports of the Eegistbar-General ; 
the Meteorological Reports of Mr. Glaisher; the Eeturns of the Board 
OF Trade, and the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports.] 
Population of the United Kingdom (exclusive of islands in the 
British seas) ; also of England, Scotland, and Ireland ; estimated 
to the middle of the year 1S68 : — - 
United Kingdom in 1868. 
Males 14,628,472 
Females ^Si 741.373 
Total 30,369,845 
England. Scotland. Ireland. 
Males .. .. 10,456,743 1,503,766 2,667,963 
Females .. .. 11,192,634 1,684,359 2,864,380 
Total .. 21,649,377 3,188,125 5,532,343 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Births and Deaths in the First Six Months of 1868. 
Winter Quarter {January, February, March). — Births registered 
were 198,594. The annual* bii'th-rate was 3-694 per cent. ; the 
average derived from ten corresponding winters of 1858-67 being 
3-674. 
Deaths registered were 120,095. The annual* death-rate was 
2*234 per cent. ; the average derived from ten corresponding winters 
of 1858-67 being 2*576. 
The fine weather of the quarter, in which period February was 
remarkably venial in its character, exercised the most salutary 
influence on the public health ; and a singularly low rate of mor- 
* The annual birtt-rate or death-rate of a quarter represents the proportion 
■which the births or deaths in a quarter, after they have been multiplied by 4, bear 
to the population. There v?ere more than three births to 100 living ; nearly 
37 to 1000. 
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