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The death-rate of the 33 largest English towns was 21.6,
which is nearly 1 per thousand higher than that recorded
for the previous year. As usual, the death-rate of this
parish was lower than that of any one of the 33 largest
English towns, the nearest to it being:-
Croydon 16.30
Huddersfield 17.20
Halifax 17.36
Portsmouth 18.22
Derby 18.24
Brighton 18.42
Nottingham 18.46
West Ham 18.91
Bristol 18.93
and the highest being:-
Wolverhampton 23.27
Blackburn 23.28
Sal ford • 24.08
Bolton 24.12
Manchester 24.90
Preston 26.37
Liverpool 27.34
The death-rate of Edinburgh was 19.8, or nearly the
same as that of Greater London (19.7), that of Glasgow
23.4, and that of Dublin 27.0.
As usual, the lowest death-rates in Foreign cities were
higher than the death-rate of this parish, the nearest to it
being those of :-
Sydney 15.7
Brisbane 16.3
Christiania 17.5
San Francisco 17.9