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11 [1898
The density of a population is to a large extent a factor in the
mortality, which may be favourable or unfavourable; as it is small or
great. It is not, however, a rule, as was once supposed, that the death.
rate of a community was in proportion to its density. It will be
noticed, however, in Table V., that the highest death.rates are for the
most part found in the most thickly peopled places, a statement which
is equally true of the provincial towns and of the Metropolitan
Districts (vide Table VI.) Under these circumstances it is most
gratifying to notice that, notwithstanding its great density of population,
this Islington of ours shows such a remarkably low mortality.
It is a noticeable fact that the density, 79 persons per acre, of the
least dense portion of our district, namely, Tufnell Ward, is greater
than that of the most densely populated of the large towns, and that our
most thickly populated ward is nearly five times as dense as Manchester
or Liverpool.