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Deaths.
The number of deaths in the Administrative County of London in 1899 (52 weeks) was
87,819, giving an annual death rate of 19.3 per 1,000 living. The London death rate in
successive periods has been as follows—
All causes—Death rates per 1,000 living.
1841-50 24.8
1851-60 23.7
1861-70 24.4
1871-80 22.5
1881-90 20.5
1891 21.01
1892 20.31
1893 21.01
1894 17.41
1895 19.51
1896 18.11
1897 17.71
1898 18.21
1899 19.31
The death rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean death rate of the period
1841-99 is shown in diagram III.
The following table has been prepared for the purpose of comparing the death rate of
the Registration County of London with those of other English towns having populations which
exceeded 200,000 persons at the census of 1891.
The columns showing death rates corrected lor age and sex distribution have been
obtained by multiplying the "crude" death rates by the "factor for correction" published by
the Registrar-General in the Annual Summary for 1899.
Towns.
Estimated
population
middle of
1899.
Crude death rate
per 1,010 living.
Death rate per 1,000
living (corrected for age
and sex distribution).
1889-98.
1899.
1889-98.
1899.
London
4546,752
19.62
19.82
20.9
21.1
Manchester
543,902
24.4
24.6
27.6
27.9
Liverpool
634,212
25.6
26.4
28.1
29.0
Birmingham
514,956
20.8
20.8
23.0
23.0
Leeds
423,889
20.6
19.1
22.8
21.2
Sheffield
361,169
21.3
22.2
23.7
24.7
Bristol
320,911
18.5
18.2
19.2
18.9
Nottingham
239,384
18.6
20.0
20.0
21.5
Bradford
236,241
19.4
18.4
22.2
21.1
Hull
234,270
19.9
19.3
20.9
20.3
Salford
218,244
24.3
23.8
27.3
26.8
West Ham
300,241
17.2
16.7
18.6
18.0
London had therefore (comparing the corrected death rates) a lower death rate than any
of these towns except Bristol, Bradford, Hull, and West Ham in the year 1899, and a lower death
rate than any except Bristol, Nottingham, Hull, and West Ham in the period 1889-98.
The following table enables comparison to be made of the death rates of London with the
death rates of several foreign cities3—
All causes—Death rates per 1,000 living.
Towns.
1889-98.
1899.
Towns.
1889-98.
1899.
London
Paris
Brussels
Amsterdam
Copenhagen
Stockholm
19.62
21.3
19.3
19.2
19.5
18.7
19.82
20.2
17.9
15.3
19.2
20.0
St. Petersburg
Berlin
Vienna
Rome
New York
29.2
19.7
23.1
21.0
22.8
25.2
18.7
20.6
17.4
18.4
It will be seen that in the period 1889-98 the London death rate was lower than that of
any of these towns except Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Stockholm, while in 1899 it
exceeded the death rates of all except Paris, Stockholm, St. Petersburg and Vienna.
The following table shows the crude death rates and the death rates, corrected for
differences in the age and sex constitution of the populations, obtaining in each of the sanitary
districts of London for the year 1899 (52 weeks), and the period 1889-98—
1 These death rates are fully corrected for institutions, i.e. by the exclusion of deaths of persons not belonging to but occurring in
institutions situated within London, and by the inclusion of deaths of persons belonging to but occurring in London institutions
situated outside the administrative County.
2 Including deaths of Londoners in the Metropolitan Workhouses, Hospitals and Lunatic Asylums, situated outside Registration
London, but excluding deaths of persons not belonging to London occurring in the Highgate Smallpox Hospital, in the London Fever
Hospital, in the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum at Wandsworth, and in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals within
Registration London.
All death rates in this report relating to foreign cities are calculated upon figures published by the Registrar-General.