SICKNESS AND INFIRMITY AMONGST URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION, 1891., TABLE LX.—Showing the Number and Proportion per 10,000 Living of Persons, Males, and Females suffering from each description of Infirmity in the Colony, in Cities, Towns, and Boroughs, and in Shires.

Nature of Infirmity.	The Colony.			Cities, Towns, and Boroughs.			Shires.
	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.	Persons.	Males.	Females.
NUMBERS.
Total	23,916	14,675	9,241	15,168	9,188	5,980	8,748	5,487	3,261
Sickness	12,924	7,590	5,334	8,849	5,127	3,722	4,075	2,463	1,612
Accidents	1,668	1,379	289	988	796	192	680	583	97
Deafmuteism	364	204	160	208	112	96	156	92	64
Blindness	995	612	383	731	444	287	264	168	96
Eye Affections	184	94	90	126	65	61	58	29	29
Lunacy	3,770	2,077	1,693	1,823	1,043	780	1,947	1,034	913
Idiocy	355	214	141	211	115	96	144	99	45
Epilepsy	420	203	217	285	138	147	135	65	70
Paralysis	1,097	650	447	710	427	283	387	223	164
Lameness, mutilation, deformity, &c.	2,139	1,652	487	1,237	921	316	902	731	171
PROPORTIONS PER 10,000 LIVING.
Total	209.71	245.23	170.50	244.81	296.47	193.11	167.96	190.19	140.36
Sickness	113.33	126.84	98.42	142.81	165.43	120.19	78.24	85.37	69.39
Accidents	14.63	23.04	5.33	15.95	25.68	6.20	13.06	20.21	4.17
Deafmuteism	3.19	3.41	2.95	3.36	3.62	3.10	2.99	3.19	2.75
Blindness	8.72	10.23	7.07	11.80	14.33	9.26	5.07	5.82	4.13
Eye Affections	1.61	1.57	1.66	2.03	2.10	1.97	1.11	1.01	1.25
Lunacy	33.06	34.71	31.24	29.42	33.65	25.18	37.39	35.84	39.30
Idiocy	3.11	3.57	2.60	3.41	3.71	3.10	2.76	3.43	1.94
Epilepsy	3.68	3.39	4.00	4.60	4.45	4.73	2.59	2.25	3.01
Paralysis	9.62	10.86	8.25	11.46	13.78	9.14	7.43	7.73	7.06
Lameness, mutilation, deformity, &c.	18.76	27.61	8.98	19.97	29.72	10.24	17.32	25.34	7.36