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average. October to December were mild and wet, the temperature
and rainfall being above the average, the sunshine below.
It was thus on the whole a year without extremes of heat
or cold—a mild winter and wet summer, conditions always
favourable to a low death-rate.
Plumstead compared with London and 33 large towns.
19. The birth-rate was 2.1 above London and 1.5 above the
average of the 33 towns.
The death-rate was only two-thirds that of London, and
lower than any of the large towns, Croydon coming nearest to
it with a rate of 13.2. The Zymotic death-rate was a little below
London and the average of the large towns, but 15 towns had a
lower rate. The Infantile death-rate was far below that of any
of the large towns, Croydon being the lowest with 123.
The rate of Uncertified deaths, however, was far higher in
Plumstead than in London and most of the towns: five only
had a higher rate, viz., Preston, Halifax, Birmingham, Hull, and
West Ham.
(For comparison with London see Table 1.)
Of the 43 Sanitary areas of London, two only had a lower
death-rate than Plumstead, viz., Stoke Newington and Hampstead.
Stoke Newington only had a lower Infantile death-rate
(see Table VII.).