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1899]
Towns. Populations. Death-rates.
Croydon 127,759 16.7
Brighton 123,226 19.0
Plymouth 100,637 21.7
Swansea 106,722 18.1
Wolverhampton 88,821 21.8
Birkenhead 115,162 19.2
Burnley 113,081 19.6
Preston 117,622 22.8
Huddersfield 103,464 16.2
Halifax 97,721 18.2
Gateshead 106,552 18.8
Upper Holloway 103,732 16.4
For some reason, which it is not easy to explain, an idea has
obtained currency even among the residents, that this district is an
unhealthy one. These figures ought surely dissipate it. But in order
to be convinced that in London itself there are few places of its size,
and none of its density, so healthy, a reference may be usefully
made to Table VI. (page 17), which gives the populations, densities,
and death-rates of the metropolitan sanitary districts.
The deaths and death-rates for each year since 1891 are given
in Table XVI. (page 35).
The mortality returns were proportionally heavier in Southwest
Islington than in the other sub-registration districts. The
deaths numbered 2,184, which represent a death-rate of 20.11 per
1,000, as against a corrected average of 2,040 deaths, and a mean
death-rate of 1878 in the preceding eight years.
The population of this sub-district is also so large, that, if it
were a separate provincial community, it would be included among
South-West Islington.