TABLE XXIX.-SHOWING THE NUMBER OF DIVORCED PERSONS WHO HAVE RE-MARRIED IN 1901. BY COUNTIES.

TABLE XXX.-SHOWING THE NUMBER OF WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS WHO HAVE

DEATHS.

The registered mortality in 1901 exclusive of still-births numbered 14,856, which was 1,512 less than in the preceding year. Upon the estimated population, 908,355, the death-rate was 16.2 per 1,000 living population.

The deaths of males on record numbered 7,818; of females, 7,032; of 6 decedents the sex is not stated.

The greatest mortality was registered in January and reached 1,456. The smallest mortality was in June, amounting to 1,032. The annual rates represented by the deaths in each quarter were as follows:

Among so many thousand deaths there will inevitably occur a small percentage respecting which the causes cannot be ascertained. There will also be a list in which the cause given is so vague and general that it cannot be assigned to any definite class. For example, Debility, Hemorrhage, Abscess, Tumor, etc. The latter would be much diminished if the doctors who gave the certificates were intelligent enough to appreciate the importance of stating the cause of the "Debility" of the hemorrhage, and the character and locality of the "Abscess," etc., etc. ill-defined cases numbered 121.

These

DEATHS FROM UNKNOWN OR UNSPECIFIED CAUSES OF
DEATHS AND PERCENTAGES, 1878-1901 (24 YEARS).

Under the Bertillon Classification now adopted for the first
time, the classes are not readily comparable with the classes of
the old system; the chief difference being the inclusion in the
class called General Diseases of the Zymotic, the Constitutional
and other members of the former system.

From the causes of death as registered under the different
classes the percentage of each was as follows: