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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
TABLE IX. 
AXMINSTER DISTRICT. 
Deaths 
Mean 
Death 
Rate. 
Mean 
in 
Death 
Acres 
Mean 
Acres 
10 y 
ears. 
Rate. 
to 
Geology. 
Death 
to 
Parish. 
Person 
Rate. 
Person 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
M. 
F. 
Charmouth . . . 
661 
3 
7 
1.06 
1.84 
0.8 
j Lias, Green- 
( sand 
Lyme Regis . . . 
2275 
25 
30 
2.28 
2.03 
0.5 
) Greensand 
( Lias 
Uplyme .... 
975 
2889 
5 
6 
1.23 
3 
Lias, Marl 
Axminster . . . 
29 
54 
2.09 
3-58 
2.4 
Thorncombe . . . 
1237 
686 
6 
13 
0.99 
2.05 
3-8 
HawKcnurcii . 
9 
14 
2.52 
4-25 
0 
j Lias, Marl. \ 
\ Greensand ) 
1.83 
2.58 
2.20 
Chardstock . . . 
1484 
13 
9 
1.64 
1.29 
3 
j i/iiaiK, vxreen— 
( sand 
Membury. . . . 
742 
10 
8 
2. 61 
2.23 
5 
| Chalk, Green- 
( sand, Lias 
Axmouth. . . . 
682 
1 
7 
0 28 
2.07 
6 
J Chalk, Green- 
( sand, Marl 
Roosdown . . . 
14 
0 
0 
0 
0. 
14 
f Chalk, Green- 
( sand, Lias 
Seaton 
901 
4 
14 
1 'o5 
2.64 
[,3 
f Chalk, Marl 
Beer 
1 149 
3 
14 
0.60 
2.14 
\ Chalk 
Coombpyne . . . 
120 
2 
2 
3-17 
3-56 
6 
j Chalk, Green- ) 
( sand J 
i-34 
2.01 
1.67 
Kilmington . . . 
543 
4 
8 
i-53 
2.83 
3 
Sandstone, Marl 
Stockland . . . 
IOOI 
*3 
6 
2.32 
1. 10 
5 
»» 
Dulwood .... 
487 
3 
5 
1.23 
2.04 
3 
)> 
Shute 
628 
5 
10 
1.46 
2.97 
4 
>) 
Colyton .... 
2462 
13 
28 
1. 12 
2.15 
2.9 
1.56 
2.01 
1.78 
Musbury .... 
5H 
1 
3 
0.40 
1. 11 
4 
>> 
The deaths are from Mr. Forward's returns. 
Axminster district, by the Registrar- General's Report, shows, 
for the years 1861-70, a low death-rate for men (1*49), higher for 
women (2*34). The Geology of the district is very mixed ; Green- 
sand series, Chalk, Lias, Marls, &c. Classed geologically, and in 
the order of least death-rate, the parishes on the Chalk, Green- 
sand, &c. show a mean of 1*67 ; those on Sand and Marl, 1*78 ; 
those on Lias and Greensand, 2*20. But the high death-rate of 
women has its probable explanation in the close rooms of the 
" schools" of the lace-makers ; workers will have warmth in their 
rooms, at the cost of health and life. The damage to health toward 
Phthisis is slow, and not much felt in early stages ; but it is none 
the less certain, where an impure air is continuously breathed. 
Where young people, yet in the formative period of animal being, 
sit inactive many hours a day, and year after year, in rooms 
without effective means for the continuous escape of the foul air, 
Phthisis must develope. Warmth must be provided, but not by 
