HH62/2/RENFRE/81

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PART II.
THE DISTRICTS.

I.
FIRST OR UPPER DISTRICT.
Population. - The population of the District, for sanitary pur-
poses, as ascertained at the Census of 1891, was 34,505, - the density
of population, 348 persons to the square mile.
Births. - 1071 births were registered within the District during
the year; the birth-rate, calculated upon a population of 34,500, was
thus 31·0 per thousand of the population - as compared with 27·1 in
the Second District. The birth-rate in the Principal Towns was 32·6,
in the Small Town Districts 31·6, in the Mainland-Rural Districts
27·5. The Illegitimacy-rate was only 6·0 per cent., as compared with
7·2 in the Principal Towns, 7·2 in the Small Town Districts, and
9·8 in the Mainland-Rural Districts. The circumstances of the First
District may be regarded as equivalent to those of the Small Town
Districts, while the Second District naturally falls into the category
of Mainland-Rural Districts.
Deaths. - The deaths were 663, to which there have to be added
16 occurring in Public Institutions outwith the District; the total,
679, yields a death-rate for the year of 19·7, as compared with 17·1
in the Second District. The death-rate in the Principal towns was
22·7, in the Small Town Districts 20·1, in the Mainland-Rural Dis-
tricts 17·2.
The infantile death-rate. - That is, the proportion of deaths
under one year per thousand births, was 114, which would have been
a low rate for a town, but is only moderately satisfactory in a rural
district. The corresponding rate in the Second District was 96.
The zymotic death-rate - 2·8, was above the average rate of
the District in the preceding five years. The mean zymotic death-
rate of the country was 3·0 per thousand: I am unable to give the
rates according to the different categories distinguished by the
Registrar-General.
There were no deaths from Small-pox nor from Typhus Fever.