-Land. 127,701 (1875) Griqua-Land 16,632 el Territory.. 16,031 aal Province. 114,358 45,277 (1877) 195,000 (1875) 40,000 (1875) -s in the Transvaal. 275,000 qua and Herrero... 142,438 18,750 African settlements. 17,163 elena... 47 sion 34 44,000 326,959 (1875) 2,678,690 1,904,091 (1875) 481 (1871) 37 (1869) 119,569 (1876) 150 2,549,300 (1875) 190,840,848 (1872) 808,097 (1871) 4,898 (1871) 22,707 (1872) 8,084,639 5,172,791 40.8 241,872,777 3,686,596 (1871) The Registrars' Returns for 1876 show that in that year the birth-rate in the United Kingdom was 34.8 per 1,000 of the (estimated) population; in England the rate rose to 36.5, and in Scotland to 35.9, but in Ireland the registers show only 26.4 births per 1,000 persons living. The Returns for Scotland state that 8.6 per cent. of the births in that country were illegitimate; in the mainland rural districts as many as 10.5 per cent. A new Return introduced, relating to the 8 principal towns of Scotland, showed that in 1876 the ratio of illegitimate births to the number of the possible mothers of such children (i. e., unmarried women, including widows, between 15 and 45 years of age) ranged from 1.66 per cent. in Edinburgh to 2.57 per cent. in Aberdeen; it was 2.31 per cent. in Glasgow. The death-rate in the United Kingdom in 1876 was as low as 20.4 per 1,000 persons living; 21 per 1,000 both in England and Scotland, but only 17.4 per 1,000 in Ireland. The number of persons married in 1876 in England was higher than in any year except 1873 and 1874, but the ratio, which was 16.6 per 1,000 of the population, showed a slight further decline from the high ratios of 17.5 and 17.6 in those two years; in Scotland the number for 1876 has only once been exceedednamely, in 1873, and the ratio, which was 15 per 1,000, exceeded the last 10 years' average, though it was not quite up to the high rate of 1873 and 1874. In Ireland the ratio of last year is returned at a fraction below 10 per 1,000, or a little short of the average. The marriage rate in England in 1876 ranged from 10.2 per 1,000 in extra-metropolitan Middlesex, and 11.6 in Cornwall and Herefordshire, to 19.3 and 19.5 in Nottinghamshire and Lancashire. The 1,154,631 births in the United Kingdom in 1876 were more by 477,722 than the deaths, this excess of births over deaths being nearly 92,000 greater than the excess in the preceding year. The 510,308 deaths in The movement of population for 1871 to 1876 England and Wales in 1876 included 129,537 of as as follows: infants under a year old; and though this num er was equal to 146 per 1,000 births, it was a wer rate than in any year since 1862. There ere 124,059 deaths of persons above 60 years d, or 68.3 per 1,000 persons of such age estiated to be living; in 1874 and 1875, the ratios ere 72 and 77.5 respectively. The deaths in ngland and Wales in 1876 from the 7 prinpal zymotic diseases were 73,217, or 6,042 wer than in the preceding year; the rate of his mortality in 1876 was equal to 3 per 1,000, ad had been 3.8, 2.9, 3.6, and 3.3 in the four receding years. There were 21,527 deaths om diarrhoea, 16,643 from "scarlet fever," 0,372 from "fever," 9,884 from whoopingough, 9,551 from measles, 2,822 from dipheria, and 2,418 from smallpox. The fatal ases of smallpox and measles were more nuerous in 1876 than in 1875, but those from To the United States. each of the 5 other diseases declined. The Registrar-General considered that the steady decline in the prevalence of fever (including typhus, enteric, and simple) afforded most satisfactory evidence of sanitary progress. The annual death-rate from fever, which in the 6 years 1870-'75 had steadily declined from 79 to 52 per 100,000 persons living, further declined to 43 in 1876. The rate of mortality in 1876 was 22.3 per 1,000 in London, 23.1 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, but 26 per 1,000 in Lancashire. In the whole of England and Wales, excluding Lancashire, the death-rate was but 20.3 per 1,000. In equal numbers living 128 persons died in Lancashire in 1876, to 100 in the rest of England and Wales. The number of emigrants from the United Kingdom during the years 1853-'76 was: NATIONALITIES. oreigners.. Ot distinguished.. 1853-1876. 1815-1876.. The number of emigrants from the United ingdom in 1876 was as follows: The revenue and expenditure for the year ending March 31, 1877, were as follows: TIONALITY. 15.048.865 46,518,571 517,144 4,265,032 415.259 8,641,689 398,779 3,764,5-7 1,417.989 799.544 8.634.360 1,586.505 Shates America. 5,842,846 10,514,798 699,163 78,597.400 546,651 1,120,574 995,600 50.545 297.405 2. Excise.. 28,408,052 27,736,000 7,008.181 3. Stamps.. 11,126,494 10.890,000 4. Land-tax and house-duty.. Republic 1,437,288 1,271,445 5. Property and income tax... 4,700,510 10,097 6. Post-Office 7,064 4,501.213 976 2,001 25,584 8. Crown lands... 11.190.903 t of Africa. nglish... otch.. sh... reigners.... 19,666 2,941 t specified.. 1,813 Total..... 75,583 12,327 83,191 17,171 188,222 The following table gives the population of e principal cities in July, 1876, according to e estimates of the Registrar-General: The principal items under the head of miscellaneous were: Profits of issue from the Bank of England, £138,578; from the Egyptian Government, £139,110; fees, etc., of public offices, £762,918; receipts by naval and military departments, £902.536; contributions from Indian revenue, £898,357; receipts by civil departments, £481.534; receipts by revenue departments, £356,097; interest on public loans, £654,572. EXPENDITURES. 521,544 14. Hull (1877).. Manchester. 857,917 16. Leicester. Salford.. Birmingham.. 188.425 17. Sunderland. 500,397 18. Brighton. 871,839 19. Aberdeen... 96,499 (1877). 877,436 20. Nottingham. 93,627 814,666 21. Oldham 88,609 83,430 1. Public debt.. Dublin. Leeds. Sheffield.. 291,580 22. Norwich.. 274,914 23. Wolverhampton.. Edinburgh. 215,146 24. Plymouth.. Bristol. 199,539 25. Greenock... 72,549 2. Consolidated fund. The receipts and expenditures from 187177 were as follows: Hospital and School in Greenwich.. Exchequer bonds, principal.. Total... The principal items under the head of civil service were: Justice, £4,900,246, and public instruction, arts, and sciences, £3,182,920. The public debt of Great Britain was as follows at each of the periods mentioned : ad animal provisions. Articles of food.. |