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means of the warm foul air. These remarks apply probably to the 
high death-rate of women who make gloves in their own cottages 
at Torrington (the death-rate of Torrington district is 3*08 for 
women) ; perhaps also to Honiton, with a death-rate for women of 
2-35. The Rainfall of Seaton is 35-46; Sidmouth (Honiton 
district), 31*45. 
TABLE X. 
SUMMARY. 
Geological Areas, &c. 
District. 
Death-rate. 
M. 
Mean. 
Granite. Dartmoor . . . 
Granite. (Excepting Sheepstor) . 
Devonian and Seaboard of North ) 
Devon ) 
Devonian, excluding Ilfracombe 
Devonian 
Devonian 
Devonian and Border Granite 
Devonian and Seaboard . 
Carboniferous 
Granite 
Granite 
Sandstone . 
Chalk and Greensand 
Devonian and Sandstone . 
Sandstone and Marl 
Devonian and Riverine . 
Carboniferous and Riverine 
Carboniferous 
Devonian 
Lias and Greensand 
Carboniferous 
Carboniferous 
Riverine and Sandstone . 
Carboniferous 
Seaboard and Sandstone . 
Riverine and Devonian . 
Bovey Beds 
Tavistock 
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Barnstaple 
Southmolton 
Plympton 
Southmolton 
Plympton 
Newton 
St. Thomas 
Axminster 
Newton 
Axminster 
Tavistock 
Barnstaple 
Tavistock 
Newton 
Axminster 
St. Thomas 
Newton 
Barnstaple 
Newton 
0.96 
0.96 
90 
5i 
82 
o 
39 
43 
29 
15 
77 
69 
34 
25 
56 
89 
76 
60 
29 
83 
20 
67 
33 
65 
28 
7S 
87 
O.7I 
O.6O 
0.82 
0- 39 
1.09 
1- 35 
1.07 
1. 12 
1. 51 
1.81 
1.26 
1.62 
2.01 
2.20 
2.01 
1-75 
2.17 
2.32 
2.66 
2.58 
2.23 
1.99 
2.49 
2. 19 
2. 14 
2.69 
3-07 
APPEOXIMATIYE THEORY. — The fact of the least death- 
rate from Phthisis being on the high and exposed regions of Dart- 
moor and Exmoor involves the study of many factors ; such as 
geological formation, elevation, drainage of soil, amount of rain, and 
the relation of rain and mist to ozone, and to electrical phenomena 
in general — phenomena which are more active and changeful in high 
and wet than in low regions — to pure air ("air at the Seaboard 
and in thinly-populated districts being highly pure" — Dr. Angus 
VOL. VI. G 
