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rather too large for the city alone. Dr. Americo Campos 1 quotes the figure 29,121 
as the population in 1872, in 1896 it had risen to 60,218 ; by estimate from these 
figures the population in 1900 is worked out as 75,089 for the city alone, and 
101,619 for the city and suburbs and a number of neighbouring places; this last 
figure becomes 133,000 when another mode of reckoning is adopted. The deaths 
agree in number with the official figures of the interments in the city cemeteries, 
so that the larger figures should probably not be taken into consideration for estima- 
ting the mortality rate of the city itself. During the five years 1895 to 99" 1 6,346 
deaths were registered in the city, which, at the supposed population of 100,000, 
gives an annual rate of 32*69 per thousand inhabitants. That this is much too low 
is probable from the accredited expansion of the city, and if we take an estimate from 
the above population figures of 60,000 in 1896, and 75,000 in 1900, the death rate 
works out at about 50 per thousand. The following gives the extreme ends of the 
period : — 
In 1896 there were 2,492 deaths : at population of 60,000 = 42^2 per thousand. 
81,000 = 307 „ 
In 1899 there were 4,806 deaths 
In 1900 the distribution is : — 
1st three months 1076 deaths. 
2nd ,, 
3 rd » 
October 
November 
December 
Total 
1288 
1 270 
333 
348 
35 3 ! 
4,668 
100,006 — 48" 
133,000 = 36- 
at population of 75,000 = 62.2 per thousand. 
„ ,, 100,000 = 46.68 „ ,, 
I33>°°° = 3v° » » 
Even taking the higher figures lor the population, the figures are by no means 
satisfactory, and so far as death rate is a gauge, the general health of Para cannot be 
considered in a very enviable position. Perhaps a certain allowance might be made 
for the deaths of recent immigrants, amongst whom there must be a considerable 
number of deaths from yellow fever, which would affect the death rate as an index of 
the health of the acclimatized and prolonged resident. Again, a certain number are 
accountable by deaths of rubber cutters, who have contracted their fatal ague away in 
I. Para Medico, Dec, 1900. 
2. A. Campos. Para Medico, Jan., 1901, p. 68. 
3. Average from Nov. 348, anil Jan. 358, there being no figures to hand for the month itself. 
