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29 [1898
DEATHS.
There were 5,705 persons died during the year, 2,898 being males
and 2,807 females, as against a corrected annual average of 6,176 during
the preceding thirteen years, but 310 more than the number registered
in 1897. The death-rate was 16.5 per 1000 of the population compared
with an average of during 17.90 the years 1885-97. It was, however;
higher than the rate (15.8) experienced in the preceding year, which was
the lowest on record.
There is every reason to be satisfied with the present returns, so far
as gross numbers are concerned, for they represent a death-rate which
contrasts most favourably with the rates experienced in other places.
Thus it was below the death-rate of England and Wales, and considerably
less than that of London or the Great Towns. Indeed, only five
of the last mentioned places were in a more healthy state, namely,
Croydon, Cardiff, West Ham, Portsmouth and Brighton, while in
London only seven districts showed better returns, namely Hampstead,
St. George, Hanover Square, Stoke Newington, Wandsworth, Lee,
Lewisham, Plumstead, Hackney, Camberwell, Paddington, all of which
are not nearly so densely populated as Islington. The Islington deathrate
was also below the mean rate (17.2) of the 07 other large towns.
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In Glasgow the death-rate was 21.2 per 1000, in Edinburgh 19.7,
and in Dublin 26 8.
The two succeeding tables, which with the aid of the foot notes will
explain themselves, are of great interest as showing the relative
mortality in the Great Towns and in the London Districts. They show
very conclusively the very good position in which the mortality of this
district stands when brought into contrast with that of other places.
It might be well in studying these tables to take into consideration the
facts as to density of population already given in Tables V. and VI.