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Other Large Towns.—The death-rate in thirty-two
cities and boroughs next in importance to London, and having
a population of about 6,200,000, was 21.1 per 1000; ranging
from 14.5 in Croydon, to 28.8 in Liverpool, without correction
for differences between one town and another in regard to the
age and sex-distribution of their respective populations. The
death-rates of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin, were 207,23.5,
and 27.9, per 1000 respectively.
SUMMARY OF MORTAL STATISTICS.
We have already seen that the death-rate in 1895, 16.4
per 1,000, was 0.7 per 1,000 above the rate in 1894 (15.7),
but 0.5 below the decennial average rate (16.9). There were,
as usual, considerable fluctuations in the rate at different
periods of the year ; the rate ranging between the minimum
11.9, in the sixth four-weekly period ended June 15th, and
the maximum, 32.2 per 1,000, in the third four-weekly period
ended March 23rd. On four occasions only was the fourweekly
rate above the annual average rate, viz., in the 5th
to 8th weeks, ended February 23rd (21.0 per 1,000); in the
9th to 12th weeks, ended March 23rd (32.2 per 1,000); in
the 13th to 16th weeks, ended April 20th (16.5 per 1,000)
and in the 29th to 32nd weeks, ended August 10th (17 - 5 per
per 1,000). The deaths in the first-half of the year were 1,517,
the death-rate 18.1 per 1,000: the deaths in the second half
of the year were 1,231 (286 fewer), and the death-rate 14.7
per 1,000. On the other hand, the deaths from the principal
diseases of the zymotic class (230), were far more numerous in
the second half of the year than in the first half of the year
(92). The total deaths from these causes (322), were 24 fewer
than in 1894, and 24 below the decennial average also. The
deaths from the diseases of the respiratory organs (574), were
18 more than in 1894, but 97 fewer than in 1893, and 13
fewer than in 1892. In the table on page 21 will be found a