There were 22,043 men fit for military duty, -- i.e, from eighteen to forty-four years old, inclusive ; 7826 were over forty-four years of age, making the total voting population 29,869.

The death-rate per thousand was small, as compared to that of the whole State. The census tables do not give the mortality in each separate county, but in groups of several counties. Group No. 1, comprising Kings, Queens, Richmond, Rockland and Westchester, exclusive of New York and Brooklyn, presents a total population of 299,075 souls, and a mortality of 4881,-- males, 2622; females, 2259,- which gives a death-rate of 16.32 per thousand. The deathrate for the whole State is 17.38. The Westchester group is, therefore, greatly favored by Nature and may boast of an uncommonly healthy climate. The difference between these two rates will be better understood when it is remembered that the mortality in the whole State -- 88,332 deaths in a population of 5,082,871 inhabitants -- includes that of all the large cities where death's harvest is always greater than in the rural districts. The deaths in New York City and Brooklyn alone aggregate 43,208, or very near half the number of deaths in the whole State, and, taken from their joint population of 1,772,962, average 24.94 per thousand.

The population of the various towns in the county,

according to the census of 1870 and 1880, was as follows :

1880. 1870.

Bedford Town, including Mt. Kiseo and Village . . 3731 3697

Mount Kisco Village 728