VITAL STATISTICS: — POPULATION; BIliTHS ; DEATHS; 
EMIGKATION; METEOKOLOGY; IMPORTATIONS OF 
GRAIN; SALES OF BRITISH WHEAT; PRICES OF 
CORN, &c.; AND PAUPERISM. 
[The facts are derived chiefly from the lieiwrts of the Eeoistrar-Genehal ; 
the Meteorological lleports of Mr. Glaisiier; the Returns of the Board 
OF Trade, and the Inspector-General of Imports and Exports.] 
GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1867. 
In the middle of the year 1867, the Population of the United 
Kingdom, as estimated, was 30,157,473; viz., England and Wales, 
21,429,508; Scotland, 3,170,769; Ireland, 5,557,196. In the 
twelve months 1,026,422 births and 634,054 deaths were registered, 
thus making the natural increase 392,368, or at the rate of 1,074 
daily. The recorded number of emigrants was 195,953, or 537 daily. 
The difference between the emigrants and the registered natural 
increase was 537 daily. 
In the year 1867, 55,494 of the English people, 12,866 of the 
Scotch, 88,622 of the Irish people, 31,193 foreigners, and 7,778 
persons, of origin not distinguished in the returns, left ports of the 
United Kingdom for foreign and colonial settlements. They consti- 
tute a total emigration of 195,953 persons, of whom 159,275 went 
to the United States. There is a slight decline on some recent 
years. 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
In 1867 the birth-rate in England was 35-84 to a thousand 
persons living; the death-rate 21'98. The former was above the 
average, the latter below it. 
In districts that comprise the chief towns, the mortality of the 
year was 23*89 per 1000 of population. In districts comprising 
small towns and country parishes, 19'55. The average death-rates 
of town and chiefly rural districts are respectively 24*59 and 20*10 
per 1000 living. 
The South-Eastem, South- Western and Eastern Counties were 
the healthiest in 1867 ; for in these the rate of mortality was only 
19 per thousand. In the North -Midland and South-Midland Counties 
it was 20 ; in Monmouthshire and AA'ales and ^Vest-Midland Counties, 
21 ; in London, 23 ; in Yorkshire, 24 ; in the Northern Counties, 25 ; 
in the North- Western (viz., Cheshire and Lancashire), 26. 
Typhoid fever broke out at Guildford, Tamwortb, Queensbury 
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