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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

The death-rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean death-rate of the period
1841-1911 is shown in diagram (C).

Death-rates
in large
English
towns.
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London had therefore (comparing the corrected death-rates), both in the quinquennium 1906-10
and in the year 1911 a lower death-rate than any of these towns except Bristol, Portsmouth, and
Leicester.

Death-rates
in foreign
towns.
It will be seen from the foregoing table that in the quinquennium 1906-10 the London death-rate
was exceeded by the death-rates of Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna,
and New York, and in 1911 was lower than that of any except Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen
and Stockholm.
(a) See footnote (e) page 2.
(b) The corrective factors shown in the table and elsewhere in this report where calculated upon the age-and sexconstitution
of the population enumerated in 1901. Their application to the deaths in 1911 assumes that the
constitution of the population has remained unchanged during eleven years; it is, however, certain that some change
has occurred, and consequently the modified rates shown can only be regarded as approximately corrected by these
factor. (c) Rates, for years prior to 1911, are for an approximate area.