HH62/1/FIFE/31

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CUPAR DISTRICT.
DEATH RATES IN PARISHES - 1881 TO 1890.

[table inserted]

The above Table must be accepted with some reservation, as individual parishes have too small population to
give a reliable basis for calculating rates on; but when over a series of ten years, and over so many parishes,
very high death rates are found, it indicates that much can be done to reduce these in the district. Taking 17 per 1000
as a fair standard death rate for the whole District, including burghs, we find that this is exceeded in 34 per cent. of
the total cases.

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STATISTICS FOR 1891.

It is not possible to give the birth and death-rates for the District,
owing to the registrar's returns not being sent me; but from a few
parishes returns have been sent, and I shall give the results as far as
they go. Balmerino had a birth-rate of 11.6 per year per 1000 of
population; death-rate of 14.5; and a phthisis death-rate of 2.9. Falk-
land birth-rate, 23.2; death-rate, 23.2; phthisis death-rate of 3.9.
Flisk birth-rate, 41.6; death-rate, 20.8. In Moonzie only three deaths
are recorded, In Strathmiglo the death-rate was 14.8; zymotic death-
rate, 2.2; and phthisis also 2.2.
These data are too limited to draw conclusions from; but if the
phthisis death-rate is found to be actually so high, as the above rates
would indicate, there will be good reason for enquiry into the cause.