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previous year. The death-rate of this parish was lower
than that of any one of the 33 largest English towns except
Croydon, the nearest to it being:—
Croydon 13.3
Leicester 14.7
Derby 15.0
Portsmouth 15.2
Huddersfield 15.8
West Ham 16.2
Cardiff 16.2
Brighton 16.4
Halifax 16.5
and the highest being :—
Manchester 20.4
Wolverhampton 20.7
Preston 20.8
Sunderland 20.8
Salford 21.0
Liverpool 23.8
The death-rate of Edinburgh was 17.5, or nearly the
same as that of London (17.8), that of Glasgow 19.8 and
that of Dublin 24.8.
Although our death-rate was so exceptionally low, I have
for the first time to record that the death-rate of one Colonial
City was lower, viz., Brisbane, with a rate of only 12.5.
The lowest death-rates of all other Colonial and Foreign
cities were higher than the death-rate of this parish, the
nearest to it being those of:—
Sydney 14.2
St. Louis 16.1
The Hague 16.9
Hamburg 18.0
Berlin 18.2
Amsterdam 18.3
Cincinnati 18.3
Stockholm 18.3