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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
TABLE VIII. 
SOUTHMOLTON DISTRICT. 
Mean^ 
Parish. 
Deaths 
in 
10 years. 
Mean 
Death 
Kate of 
10 years. 
Acres 
to 
Person 
n 1 
theology. 
Death 
Rate. 
Mean 
Rate. 
M. 
M. 
F. 
Exmoor .... 
33 1 
° 
1 
0 , 
0.66 
62 
Devonian 
"West Anstey 
1 
0 
0.02 
0 
Molland .... 
587 
1 
3 
0.31 
1.07 
10 
Twitchen .... 
238 
1 
0 
0.8 
12 
Northmolton 
1772 
1. 41 
1 28 
8 
Charles .... 
35° 
3 
1.77 
6 
East Buckland . 
182 
0 84 
t r-« 
West Buckland . 
326 
0 
2 
0 
I.48 
■ 
East Anstey . 
0 
1 
0 
O.83 
*4 
0.82 
1 .09 
0.95 , 
Bisnopsnympton . 
1176 
1 
4 
0.16 
°-73 
8 
Carboniferous 
Mariansleigb. 
1 
1 
0.74 
o-73 
7 
Roseash .... 
556 
0 
1 
0 
o-37 
9 
)> 
Knowstone . . . 
488 
1 
0 
0.38 
0 
10 
Creacombe . . . 
62 
0 
0 
0 
0 
16 
Rackenford . . . 
463 
1 
0 
0.41 
0 
8 
"Witheridge . . . 
1225 
3 
7 
0.47 
1.19 
7 
East Worlington . 
266 
3 
2.18 
0.76 
8 
>» 
West Worlington . 
198 
1 
1 
0.89 
1. 15 
I 3 
jj 
Cheldon .... 
89 
0 
0 
0 
0 
12 
Chumleigh . . . 
1632 
12 
19 
i.5i 
2.25 
4 
)> 
Burrington . . . 
896 
12 
13 
2.66 
2.91 
5 
>> 
Warkleigh . . . 
301 
1 
1 
0. 70 
0.62 
8 
>> 
Satterleigh . . . 
72 
0 
1 
0 
2.77 
6 
»> 
Kingsnympton . . 
669 
6 
3 
1.74 
o-93 
8 
tt 
Meshaw .... 
234 
0 
1 
0 
0. 90 
4 
Romansleigh . . 
219 
1 
1 
0.83 
1.02 
11 
y> 
Georgenympton . 
242 
1 
3 
0.81 
2.5 
9 
>> 
Southmolton . . 
3604 
3i 
43 
i-7 
2.04 
i-7 
Eilleigh .... 
340 
3 
0 
1.89 
0 
5 
Chittlehampton 
1629 
18 
13 
2.13 
1.65 
5 
ff 
1.29 
1.40 
The deaths are from Mr. Riccard's returns. 
Barnstaple district, like West Dartmoor, shows the splendid 
phenomena of great freedom from Consumption ; excluding Ilfra- 
combe, it has the least death-rate as yet known of Devon. The 
splendid region, west of Exmoor, and bordering the sea, on the 
Devonian formation, and open to the west and north-west Atlantic 
winds, is almost free from Consumption. The inhabitants live an 
out-of-door life. Lynton, mean population 1,106, had one male only 
die of consumption in ten years. Coombmartin, mean population 
1451, had one male only die in ten years. During the same period 
no female died of consumption in either parish. The Northern and 
chief region of the Barnstaple district is Devonian ; the Southern 
is Carboniferous. There is also a small Riverine region. The 
Devonian is healthier than the Carboniferous. Ilfracombe, judged 
as a somewhat resort for the Consumptive, has a low death-rate 
