§ Mr. FREWENasked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he will state what is the normal death-rate for India; and what was the death-rate during the two years of scarcity, 1897 and 1900?
§ Mr. MONTAGUIt is not easy to say what the normal death-rate for India is. The death-rates of the several provinces differ considerably in any given series of years, and the death-rate for British India as a whole is subject to great variations. The mean death-rate for British India in the ten years 1890–1899 was 30.43 per mille, and in the ten years 1900-1909 was 34.52 per mille. The death-rate in 1897 was 36.03 per mille, and in 1900 38.91 per mille.