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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1897
Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., &c., of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington for the year, 1897
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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 6,529,355, was 19.7 per 1,000, ranging from
13.1 in Croydon, 14.9 in Cardiff, and 15.1 in Brighton, to 23.1
in Manchester, 23.9 in Salford, and 24.4 in Liverpool and
Preston—without correction for differences between one
town and another in regard to the age and sex-distribution of
their respective populations. The death-rates in Edinburgh,
Glasgow, and Dublin were 21.3, 22.0, and 29.0 per 1,000
respectively.
Colonial and Foreign Cities.—The death-rate
in some of the principal foreign and colonial cities
was as follows—Indian Cities: Calcutta, 32.3 per 1,000;
Madras, 35.5; and Bombay, 57.5; European Cities:
Paris, 18.6 per 1,000; St. Petersburg, 29.0; Moscow, 28.7;
Berlin, 17.7; Vienna, 20.9; Buda-Pesth, 21.9; Brussels, 16.6;
American Cities : New York, 19.4 per 1,000; Boston, 21.1;
Philadelphia, 18.8; San Francisco, 17.1; and New Orleans,
24.5.