HH62/2/ROSS/49

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TABLE III. - BIRTH RATE, INFANTILE, AND OTHER DEATH RATES.

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NOTES TO TABLE III.
(a) The population rates for '91 are not corrected to the middle of the year, as there was no time to do so, owing to the fact that many of the local returns only came in at the last moment.
(b) The Dingwall rates are corrected by deducting the deaths in the Ross Memorial Hospital for the corresponding periods. From Tain returns, for Easter Ross Poorhouse, there ought to be deducted from 1885 to 1889 inclusive, 10.6; from '90, 12; and from '91, 15. From Rosemarkie, for the Black Isle Poorhouse, the deductions are 5, 5, and 6 for the same periods.
(c) Croup has, as far as possible, been kept to a category by itself. In the Lews the term is frequently applied to capillary bronchitis, &c.
(d) I have included phthisis in the respiratory diseases. It would be more symetrical to exclude it.
(e) I have not differentiated the deaths under 5 and over 5. Those under 5 are almost entirely uncertified, and the information would only be misleading.
(f) With regard to uncertified deaths I do not think they affect the numbers set down under zymotic diseases to any appreciable extent. But, doubtless, the figures under cancer and consumption, &c., would be much larger if all the causes of death were known.
(g) Carnoch has no deaths during '91.
I would have liked to have analysed the Returns and compared the different results; but, for the reasons above given, this must stand over till a future opportunity. Meantime the facts will be accumulating, and the inferences to be drawn will be more reliable.
II No Returns for '91.

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