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Greater London.—The death-rate in " Greater London,"
which is co-extensive with the Metropolitan and City Police
Districts, the population, in the middle of the year 1896,
numbering 6,178,376 (viz., 4,421,955 in Inner or Registration
London, and 1,756,421 in the Outer Ring), was 17.0 per 1,000,
as compared with 19.7, 16.4, and 18.3, in the three preceding
years respectively. The deaths properly belonging to the
Outer Ring, as distinguished from Inner or Registration
London, were equivalent to a rate of only 13.1; the rate in
the Inner Ring having been 18.6. The death-rate from the
principal diseases of the zymotic class in Inner London, was
314 per 1,000; in the Outer Ring 210; the rate in Greater
London, as a whole, being 2.87 per 1,000.
Other Large Towns.—The death-rate in thirty-two
cities and boroughs next in importance to London, and having
a population of 6,425,016, was 195 per 1,000, ranging from
14.2 in Croydon, to 22.6 in Manchester and Salford, and 22.7
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 in Edinburgh,
Glasgow, and Dublin were 16.9, 20.4, and 24.9 per 1,000
respectively.