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Let me say that on applying the English mortality rates for males
and females to the Islington population to each group of ages the
results gave 3,179 deaths for males, and 3,188 for females, or 6,367
persons.
These deaths are equal to a death-rate of 19•39, which is the
Standard Death-rate of Islington, and the death-rate by which the
condition of the health of the Parish should be gauged when compared
with the rest of the country.
Judging then the Death-rate of Islington (which was, as already
stated, 19•45 per 1,000) by this standard death-rate it must be
considered satisfactory, for it is only 0•06 above it, and more
especially so when the conditions of the population as to lodging
and housing are taken into consideration, as well as the large aggregation
of persons on a limited area. It must be recollected that while
in Islington there is only 0•009 acre allotted to each person living in it,
the country, as a whole, affords 1•53 acres. Putting it differently, on
each acre of Islington there dwell 105 persons, while on each acre
of the country there are only 1•25.
MORTALITY IN THE SUB-REGISTRATION DISTRICTS.
The following Table gives the number of persons, males and
females, distributed to the several Sub-registration Districts in which
they had lived.

The Age Distribution in the several Sub-registration Districts are
not known, and therefore it is not possible to say positively which, if any,
of the death-rates is excessive. Apparently they are what one might