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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 16, 17 October 1861, Page 6 (Supplement)

i Rate of Mortality —ln England during the period 1690-1820 the ratio of deaths to the population fell no less than two-fifths. This great improvement arose chiefly in the latter part of the period, from the introduction of vaccination. Since 1820, the deaths have rather increased, being 1 in 49 annually for 1821-31, and one in 44'5 for 1831—41. The mean rate (1838-55) being 1 in 44 of the population annually, the extremes being lin 48, and lin 40. The mortality in France has fallen from 1 in 28 of the population in 1775, to one in 43 in 1845, It was lin4s in 1853, and lin 37 in 1854. From records kept for various periods since 1820, the annual mortality in the chief European states is as follows : In Norway, 1 in 50 of the population ; Denmark, 1 in 46 ; Sweden, 1 in 43 : North Russia, 1 in 34; Holland, 1 ■in 35 ; Belgium 1 in 40: France , lin43 ; Prussia, >1 in 34 : Austria, lin 31; Switzerland, lin4o ; Spain and Portugal, 1 in 40 ; Italy, Turkey, and :Greece, lin 30. In New Zealand, South Australia and Ceylon, the mortality ratio is said to be 1 in 83 of the population ; in Cape Colony, 1 in 66 ; in Demarara 1 in 32 ; and in lower Canada, 1 in 41. In the following chief cities the rates are : Hobart Town, lin 66; London, 1 in 42: New ■York 1 in 38; the four chief Scotch towns, lin3B ; Berlin, lin 34; Paris, lin34 ; Dublin, 1 in 33 ; Naples lin2s ; Vienna, lin 21; Home and Venice, lin2o ; Calcutta, lin 24; New Orleans, 1 in 16 ; Alexandria 1 in 13. A Printer’s Paragraph. —At a printer’s festival at Boston, a short time since, the following capital toast was drunk :—The Editor —the man that is expected to know everything, tell all he knows, and guess at the rest; to make known his own good character, establish the reputation of his neighbour, and elect all candidates to office, to blow up everybody, suit everybody, and reform the world; to live for the benefit of others, and have the epitaph on his tombstone, “ Here he lies at lastin short, he is a locomotive runner on the track of public notoriety; his lever is his pen; his boiler is filled with ink, his tender is his scissors; his driving wheel is public opinion; whenever ho explodes it is caused by the non-pay-ment of subscriptions.