The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-02-09 00:00:00

REGISTRAR OFNRRAL'S QUARTERLY
REIURNS.

nese returns have just been published. The birth.
sod deaths are (hoes registered during the querter
ending Deceuiba 31st, and the marriagen
registered during he quarter ere ling Set tetiliwr 30th.
Nl•afti.sots.-63,1301penionl /arrow rried inthequarter
th •t ended on September 30,11,1863. The weddinp were
41.902, and exceed by 1317 the weddings in the summer
yusrter of 1882. and by 2018 the wedding, ie inn
summer preceding. The marriage-rate was 1 616 peg
cent., and thia is above the average of ten preceding
qearters. Tnu• the marriage meter iodinates by it•
el., a steady iin prove in• it is the wad it i .n •nd penspertis
f the greet body of the nation. London taken an.
leo' mai is fol:ored surronn iing divwios..
1111 the interval betwesn 1861 and NO inn nnn,..,
in•rrier rose from 7322 to 81131 in the seetrepeha •
from 3232 to 3312 in Kint and the other tooth-easter;
counties. A not.bla increase also appears in the returns
of the counties of Hertford, Oxford, Bedford, nna
Cambridge; in Suffolk and Norfolk; while minim.
, decreased in Willa, Devon, and Somerset; but
creased in Gloucester, Bristol, Salop, Stafford,
, and Warwick, which are pervaded in different
degrees by prosperous said and iron works
Leicester, Lincoln, and Derby show an Merits.* ;
Nottingham indicates some depression. The marrisgeof
of Cheshire and Lancashire rill from 7086 in the
summer quarter of 1861 to 6376 in the oorrespoodiag
qusrter of 1862, but in the suinnier quarter of the leaf
18113 rose acme to 6999, and thus gave the signal of re,
.ction. Yorkshire sympathised with Lancashire-,•-•
e penally in Huddersfield Halifax. Bradford, and Hull,
—but the reaction in this great county was more ems-
plete ; and the people of Leeds and Sheffield m.rried in
greater numbers than they did in either of the two pre.
s-ding summer quarter.. The marriagen increased
steadily in the Northern 0011111 tie• • and the Principalityf 4 Wale., either &Amsted by loyalty, Cr by the hest of
their in trade, suris.aed the Iletrepolis in the Mee ef
its marriage-rate which exceeded by 12 per cent. the
simmer rate or Wale. in 186 L

BIRTH,. —lBO,OlO birth. were registered in tie inel
quarter of the rear 1093; and the birth-rate of the
quarter wan 3,461 which is considerably above the
average rate of the satunin quarter. Children are net
born in equal numbers throughout the year; and, in
general, birth. are at the bighted in the winter geol.,
and at the lowest in the autumn quarter of the year.
But the semitone of the last year were exceptional, for
the birth-rate was highest in the spring, and lowest is
the summer quarter; and in all the quarter. the rate
was above the aver le. The account ttf 1/163 makes
the registered births in that year 729,309; and the birth-
rate ia 3 549, or 0 122 above the average (3 427) of the
ten preoedin years. The births exceeded by 17,7011
the births in the year 1862, which WY it-elf mor
prolific than any year that had gone before it.
It is shown in the Census Rep rt that the numbernf
I wedded childbeasing worn-n is increasing faster than
the general population, and this partly accounts for the
I increase of the birth rate.

INCH lASI OF POPUI ATMS. —A S the births WIMP
180,010. the deaths 116 229, the ascertained natural
increase of population in the last quarter of the year
was 63 711 Shout 15,319 pers no of English origin
emigrated during the quarter. The emigre to from the
United Kingdom of which the Em4r tion Commission
furnishes an account, amounted to 43123, of whom .boat
28 850 were foreigners 68,280 emigrants of English
°riga, sailed from porta at which there are emigration
agents in the year 18113; and of their nutub. rs 36,312
riled to the United States. 2,843 to the North
American roloni .27 487 to the Australian Colonies,
and 1,6341 to other plac Tie emigrants from the
United Kingdom in the Jar were 215,025-124,433
males and 90,592 female; after excluding 873&
foreginer who sailed from British pars. Allowing
for unregistered births, .nd for migration, the inters
of the population of England wee at 215,537 in Lb.
year; while tb.. emigration tom Irel nd reduced the
rest of the population, so that the p.obable increase
of the United Kingdom was about 190,428
NICKS, PAUPERISM, AND THE
Fortunately for the country while the price of
meat remained stationary, the prior of wheat
and the prices of potatoes were kept down by the
&bend ait crops, and this was as advantageous to the
people at large, a• a was to the et-notary world 134/0t
by thee rase at the London market. w a quoted at
44. and Rd in the autumn quarters of 1861 1862 and
1863 mutton in the same qua, ter at 4d. sed., 5d.•
and 61d., sid and 73. The average price of beef in the
last quarter was 5j3., of mutt-,n Bd. a peon Wheat
to the corresponding autumn quarto.. .as 59. 3d,
48e 2d . and Os. fld ; port...es to.. 5a., and 3s 6tll •
hundredw ight whole-ale. While potatoes were 1375.
•am in 1882 they fell to 101. in 1863 Wheat in the
last autumn was 40. 6d , to which it fell progreseivedy
from 595. 9d. in the autumn of 1861. The averke
pros of wheat was 55s 54 in 1862, and 445. 84 he
1863; the reduction was 19 per cent. : and the wheat
entered for home censer roe fell from nearly ten to.
leas than six million quarters. The pan ens in the re-
ceipt of relief were 951,895 in 1862, 'n3993,491 1. 1863;
but the distress culminated in the firt throe
months of the year. when 1,091,873 paupers
were on the lists, which at the end of the year
contained 935,031 : a number less by 106 143 Bug
the paupers of the corresponding Tauter of the
previons year. The dirge is still greater in the cotton
diatricte, where, aa we learn from the report of the
Central Executive Committee, the number is the re
trier of relief from the guardians and from Issal soar
mittees was 448 955 in the last week of November
1862, and 170,850 the last week of November PM
It is difficult to corers what the distr.., and taw
mortality nught have been in the manufactures diarists
had it not been for the Poor Law and for the charity of
'he nation, which ha. placed £1,323,493 at the disposal;
of the able 001111XIMESS of which Lord Derby is Slew
sheironut.

, AND TIM STATI Oto THE PUBLIO MIAITU,
—The deaths in the last ninety-two days of thcryeer were
116,299; and the mortality was at the rate of 2136
per cont., or *O5B above the gm voter's average. The
mortality was at the rate of 2'462 in the chief town
districts, and of 1 946 in the country and small ditileiede ;.
the mortality in the towns being near it. average,- mid:
iu the country above its average. Yet in salielkary
slily 24 demobs were registered out of • population of
9039. This city was f.irnierly one otf the unhealthoest
-mill cities in the kingdom ; and in the ten yeast
1811-60, the moirtality wait at the rate of 38 in
every 1000; cholera with diarrhoea was fatal la-
th, epiedmie of 1849 to 20 in every 1000 of its
inhabitants. Aroused into activity on the
approach of the second cholera epidemic, a Local.
Board of Health was appointed, and proceeded
to do it. work effectively. The open drains running.
through the streets were Ailed op, • complote vegeta of
drainage • ere carried out, and works were istabliabed
which provide a plentiful supply of water. These
municipal reforms °minimised in 1853, were com-
pleted in 1854 ; and the death-toll has been levied
with lees severity ever lints, the year 1265. The
mortality in the ten years 1851-60 fell to 24
In 1000, and though higher in the list woe
lower in the last flee year. of this period. The mortality
was at the rate of 27i0 1862. and 15 per 1000 in 180 s
The full effects of sanitary improvements: only become
apparent after some yeers ; sad the disturbance of the
newts of disease Is sonietimes folloeed by epidemic*. se
wits apparently the ewe in Withers. where the mortality
was at the rate 01 29 and 27 in 1000 during 1854 and
1855; while in 1856 the mortality fell to 22. and after
some ductuation to 18 in 1860 and 1861. This happy
hoalth7 state was disturbed by epidemics of nismales
whooping-cough in 1862, when 240 people died from all
can-es, and the mortality was at the rate of 27 in 1000.
In the year 1863 the vigilante of the Board of Health
was arm rewarded, and the mortality fell to 15 in 1000;
thus justifying the sanguine registrar when be nays :
" In my previous report I stated that in my opinion the
low rate of mortality was owing to the cenipletenem of
the sanitary improvements lately earned into effect,
and I attribute the continued favourable state of the
public health in Thill district to the saute muse. It is a
reutarkable fact, that in • population of 9,030 the
deaths have been only 44 in • half year." Al the rates
still Prevailing in other towns the deaths in • half year
would have be-n 113; thus 79 lives were saved. nee
Sok city, healed in his eminty, is • cheering memorial
near the a-bet of Lord Herbert, which lie above Salis-
bury on • tributary of the Avon. But, as experience
proves, the health of • city, like the sacred flre on the
altar, requires the constmet vigilante of it. guardians,
otherwise its flame. expire.
BLAME/PORI) —Births 56; deaths 51. The number of
deaths is above the average in SIDIMNIIIIIMO of the pee-
valence of 11/04101.

Poo—ix---Births 89; deatha 6Z-1.0 deaths kayo
occurred Irvin scarlatina.

W . Small 60; deaths Several sere a
ocarlatina ha.* occurred in the lesekhusse, iced 4.
children have died horn that dines.

WayagouriLL- 183; Laths 125.
DoILCKLICTIEL—Birtba 168; death* 120.
Beerrassust. —Birth. 112; deaths 51.
Brow leen& —bras 68; deaths 48.
W sous —Births 187 deaths U.

86-t-iumuzsca —Births 106; deaths 54.
BeamrasTia.—Blrls. 132; death. 53.
BIUDPUST. Birth. 130: Maths 82.