GEOGRAPHY OF DEVONSHIRE AND CONSUMPTION. 85 
social, or other conditions, affect the prevailing Law or Form of 
Consumption in human beings. 
The returns in all cases are for the ten years 1861-70, being for 
the same period as those of the Eegistrar-General in his thirty-fifth 
Annual Eeport on England and Wales.* 
TABLE I. 
CONSUMPTION IN THE REGISTRATION DISTRICTS OF 
DEVON, 1861-70. 
District. 
Men. 
Women. 
Mean. 
Density 
Acres 
per 
Person. 
Approximate 
rainfall : mean 
for 8 years. 
Inches. 
Totnes . . . 
Okehampton . 
Bideford . . . 
Plympton . . 
Crediton . . 
Axminster . . 
South Molton . 
Tavistock . . 
Holsworthy 
Honiton . . . 
Kingsbridge 
Stoke Damerel 
Tiverton . . 
1.56 
St. Thomas . . 
Newton Abbot 
Torrington . . . 
Exeter .... 
Plymouth . . . 
East Stonehouse . 
England and Wales 
London . . . . 
•57 
.66 
•77 
•77 
.49 
.76 
2.08 
1.77 
1.83 
1.97 
2.21 
2.19 
2.28 
2.28 
2.78 
2.21 
2.92 
2.83 
5-93 
2.46 
3-35 
1. 81 
1.92 
1.90 
1.92 
i.93 
2.34 
2.16 
1.99 
2.35 
2.35 
2.21 
2.35 
2.38 
2.40 
2.46 
2.31 
3.08 
2.43 
2.88 
2.56 
2.48 
2.39 
i.73 
1.78 
1.84 
1.85 
1. 91 
1.96 
2.03 
2.06 
2.09 
2.09 
2.28 
2.28 
2-34 
2.37 
2-54 
2.64 
2.67 
2.85 
4.24 
2.47 
2.87 
2.75 
6.58 
6.71 
3-75 
4.73 
3.04 
6.0 
5.09 
8.75 
3.63 
3.72 
0.03 
3-45 
4.0 
2.63 
1.66 
4.98 
0.04 
0.021 
0.013 
58 
40 
42 
49 
35 
38 
57 
45 
32 
38 
37 
44 
33 
44 
4i 
33 
39 
t 
f The rainfall is deduced from the records of Mr. Pengelly, f.r.s. 
The returns of the Registrar-General are made for Devon in the 
above districts ; they are thus capable of comparison with the 
returns of any part of, or all of, England and Wales for the same 
periods. In the succeeding Tables the districts have been sub- 
divided into similar geological or geographical areas. To the 
Tables of the Eegistrar-General, must be taken, as the standard, 
all investigations of special districts. The Districts specially 
examined in this paper are those of Tavistock, Plympton, Newton, 
St. Thomas, Barnstaple, South Molton, and Axminster. 
* For the parish returns of deaths I am indebted to the courtesy of 
Mr. Secretary Hammick, and the Superintendent Registrars of the districts. 
