Basuto-Land.. 127,701 (1875) West Griqua-Land 16,692 Transkei Territory. 16.031 Transvaal Province. 114,358 Natives in the Transvaal.. Namaqua and Herrero.. 142,438 Natal. 18,750 West African settlements. 17,163 St. Helena. 47 Ascension 84 45,277 (1877) 195,000 (1875) 40,000 (1875) 275,000 44,000 826,959 (1875) 539,654 (1871) 6,241 (1871) 27 (1871) 85 (1875) 839,871 (1874) 18,891 (1871) 2,673,690 1,904,091 (1875) 481 (1871) 37 (1869) 119,569 (1876) 150 2,549,300 (1875) 24,481 141,288 91,961 49,827 24,259 188,382 98,243 40,189 26,508 140,438 92,499 47,989 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. 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 was as follows: 308,097 (1871) 22,707 (1872) 241,872,777 3,686,596 (1871) The infants under a year old; and though this num 1874. 1875. 1876. ber was equal to 146 per 1,000 births, it was a lower rate than in any year since 1862. There were 124,059 deaths of persons above 60 years old, or 68.3 per 1,000 persons of such age estimated to be living; in 1874 and 1875, the ratios were 72 and 77.5 respectively. The deaths in England and Wales in 1876 from the 7 principal zymotic diseases were 73,217, or 6,042 fewer than in the preceding year; the rate of this mortality in 1876 was equal to 3 per 1,000, and had been 3.8, 2.9, 3.6, and 3.3 in the four preceding years. There were 21,527 deaths from diarrhoea, 16,643 from "scarlet fever," 10,372 from "fever," 9,884 from whoopingcough, 9,551 from measles, 2,822 from diphtheria, and 2,418 from smallpox. The fatal cases of smallpox and measles were more numerous in 1876 than in 1875, but those from 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: 928,898 168,578 1,569,572 The imports from and exports of British products to other countries, in the years 1874-76 were as follows: Wood and timber... 21,217,000 2. Raw material... Malt and other liquors. Colonial produce. Tobacco and cigars.. Seeds and fruits. Animals and animal provisions... 1. Articles of food. 1,963,000 8,991,000 £9,142,000 Imports. Exports. Caoutchouc and wax goods 95,000 771,000 Paper... 1,284,000 1,020,000 £994,000 Wood carvings.. 2,240,000 Jewelry and productions of the 42,392,000 fine arts..... Manuscripts, articles for printing. £125,258,000 £32,474,000 while those for 1874 and 1875 comprise all others also. *The exports for 1876 are those of British products only, |