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London, 16.7, Croydon, 12.7, Brighton, 15.6, Nottingham, 16.6,
Sheffield, 17.3, Birmingham, 17.3, Leeds, 17.5, Manchester, 19.5,
Liverpool, 23.1, Berlin, 17.7, Paris, 19.2, Vienna, 21.5, Moscow,
34.7.
[The death-rate for Stoke Newington, as estimated from the
complete returns for the whole year, is 9.8. This is the lowest
death-rate for 1894 recorded from among any of the 43 sanitary
areas comprised within the Metropolis. The next lowest was that
of Hampstead, 10.6, then follow, Wandsworth, 12.4, Lee. 12.4,
Plumstead, 12.5, Lewisham, 13.8, and St. George's, Hanover
Square, 14.5. The highest rates were, 21.4 in Whitechapel, 22.7
in Strand, 231 in St. George's, Southwark, 23.5 in St. Luke,
24.7 in Limehouse, and 26.4 in St. George in the East. The
death-rate for Stoke Newington in 1892 was 13.5, and in 1893,
11.3.]
District Mortality.—The deaths among parishioners in the
Northern Division of the parish amounted to 74, and furnished a
rate of 8.3 per 1,000 per annum.
The deaths among parishioners in the Southern Division of
the parish amounted to 155, and furnished a rate of 10.2 per 1,000
per annum.
It will be seen that the rate is higher in the Southern
Division; this I believe to be accounted for by the following
circumstances : -
1. There is more crowding upon area in the Southern Division
than in the Northern, i.e., 104.1 persons to the acre as against
27.7. This circumstance offers greater facility for the spread of
infectious disease, in addition to making the application of the
principles of sanitation more difficult.
2. The large bulk of the poorer class parishioners are housed
in the Southern Division. Among these poorer class parishioners
the general health conditions are always less favourable than
among the better class, and the birth-rate, which is always higher,
is accountable for a further disparity in the death-rates.