The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-02-12 00:00:00

THE YEAR 1877.
(Prow Mt Registrar-Operate Raturim.)

In the United Kingdom 1,153,398 births and 087,796
deaths were registered during the year 1877, equal to
• birthrate of 345, and • death-rate of IWO per 1,900
pereons estimated to be living in the middle of the
year. The sauna increase of population, by excess
of births over deaths, was therefore 486,602, and 7,903
more than the Immo in 1876. The acres: increase is
governed by the Wane* between immigration and
Won. No complete record of immigration
but returns issued by the Board of Trade show

emigmtka._ _
exists but retains Men...—
that during 1877 emigrant. of British origin to the
number of 91,050 left the various porta of the United
Kingdom at which emigration officers are stationed.
Emigration continues to decline, and the number in
1377 was 11 WIZ cent lower than that in 1876, which
showed a decline of 73 per cent, from the number in
1875. The decline in 1877 from the numbers in 1876
was equal to 11 per cent. in English. 14 per cent. in
Scotch, and 12 per cent- in lAA emigrants of the
91,060 British emigrants during last year, 45.792 left
for the United States. 29.703 for the Australian
Colonies, 7,822 for British North A 9146011, and 7,743
for all other places.
In England and Wales 887,066 births and 500.348
deaths were registered during 1877; the birth-rate
was 361, and the death-rate 20•4 per 1400 persona
living. The birth-rate exceeded by 0.5, while the
death-rate was 1.6 below, the average rate in the ten,,
preceding years. The death-rate was lower than that
which Asa prevailed in any year since civil registration
was established in 1837. The return. of marriages for
the last three months of 1877 are not yet available;
the marrlage-rate in the first nine months of the year
showed, however, a further decline from those which
prevailed in the corresponding period of recent years.
English mortality may be said to have been
stationary during the twenty years 1851-70. It Is,
however, satisfactory to find that during the first
seven years of the current decade the rate of mortality
in England and Wales has showed • decided decline.
During the ten years 185140 the average annual rate
of mortality in England and Wales was equal to 421,
and in the following ten years 1881-70 to 721 par
1000; daring the seven years 1871-7 the average
annual rate declined to 21 6. There appears good
reason to infer that much of this saving of life, sad
consequent decrease of sickness, is both directly and
indirectly due to the new era of sanitary progress in-
augurated by the passing of the Public Health Acts of
1872 and 1875. Tt is on.y. however, necessary to
point to the marked variations in local death-rates,
and to the conclusive evidence f exceesive mortality
in the manufacturing and mining district' of Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, and elsewhere to prove how
much may be hoped from still further improvement in
sanitary organisation and administration.
The 500,348 deaths in 1877 included 120,611 of
infante under one year of age, and 126,049 of persons
aged upwards of 60 years. The rate of infant
mortality measured by the proportion of deaths under
one year to births registered, was equal to 136 per
1,000, against 158 and 146 in 1873 and 1876. Infant
mortality in 1877 was lower than in any year since
1837, when civil registration first supplied a satiafac-
tory basis for its calculation. Daring 1876 and 1877
Infant mortality averaged only 141 per 1,000, whereas
In the five preceding years it had been equal to 153
per 1,000. The decline of infant mortality in 1877
was doubtless in some measure due to the moderate
temperature during the summer, which caused an
unusually low death-rate from infantile diarriona; but
the decline was not confined to the summer quarter of
the year, and therefore appears to afford evidence of
improved sanitary condition. The rate of mortality
among persons aged upwards of 60 yam, was equal
to 681 per 1,000 persons estimated to be living at
those ages, which although aimed identical with that
which prevailed in 1876, showed a marked decline
from the death-rates at similar ages in preceding
years.
The deaths registered in England and Wales during
the year, from all cameo, included 64.454. which were
referred to the seven principal xymotic diseases,
showing a further decline of 8,763 from the numbers
referred to the same cause. in 1875 and 1876. These
64,454 destlis included 4,280 fr on small-pox. 8,637
from measles. 14230 from scarlet fever, 2.522 from
diphtheria, 10.518 from whooping-cough, 9.481 from
fever, and 14,786 from diarrhces. The death-rate
from these seven disease' was equal to 211 per 1,000,
against 31 and 30 in the two preceding years. The
xymotic death-rate in 1877 appears to have been
unpreoedently low, and was no lees than one per
1,000 below the average symotic rate in the seven
years 1870.6; thus it may be estimated that about
24,547 lives survived the year 1,877 that would have
succumbed to these disease had the rats equalled
that which prevailed in the seven preceding years.
The deaths referred to mesales, scarlet fever,diphtheria,
lever, and diarrbcea were considerable less numerous
than those in 1876, whereas the fatal csses of small-
pox and whooping-cough showed an increase. During
the seven years 1870-6, the annual death-rate from
fever—including typhus, enteric, and simple fevers—
showed a steady decline, which was fully maintained
during 1877. The annual death-mts from fever,
which was equal to 79 per 100 000 persons living in
1870, has since continuously declined, and during
1877 did not exceed .49 per 100,000 or less than half the
rate that ruled in 1870. As the proportioned mortality
in cases of fever averages nearly 20 per cent., it may
easily be calculated that the actual reduction of deaths
from this disease only partly represents the gain to the
community due to the steadily declining prevalence of
' fever.

The inquest C2lOll registered in 1677 were 25,623,
aqua to 5 1 per oent of the total deaths; this was
slightly below the proportion that prevailed in 1876
The deaths referred to different forma of violence were
16.718, and were 864 fewer than those resulting from
violin,* in 187& . . . . .

The—iollo;rizig- are the statistics relative to this

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Puddletown . MO 4 7_ _ - _
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Netherbury W .. 31 11
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we now give the varione ciletriete of Donetehire.
Deerleft Aorta Pepdation. Ilaninges. Bettie Death..
gleeftweary 1 11149$ 5137 30 101 66
etursalsWer .. 47144 0211 11 76 34
Medford .. 57271 4644 60 91 48
W210ba1o• .. 81184 7313 44 114 70
Poole .. .. 01331 4734 311 144 61
Waroban .• 5430 7136 14 124 44
Irmsouth . 14174 21216 14 146 111
Dairablotor . 116717 24044 36 163 116
Sbarbora• .. 40415 IMO 21 ee es
Beaffstrafte . . WM 13111 LI 67 31
*44pon .. 3•11.67 16733 5 1211 45