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STATEMENT OF THE BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN GUATEMALA IN 1823.

Parishes.	Births.			Deaths.
	Men.	Women.	Total.	Men.	Women.	Total.
Sagrario	235	250	485	105	116	221
Candelaria	190	192	382	69	76	145
Remedios	180	196	376	113	138	251
S. Sebastian	159	149	308	59	53	112
Totals	764	787	1551	346	383	729

This great excess of the births over the deaths may in some measure be explained by the excellence of the food, the benignity of the climate, and perhaps the morality of the people, as compared with the population of most other large capitals. It is well known that there have been three capital cities all built in different places, as each former one was separately destroyed by earthquake.