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Report of Medical Officer of Health.] 37
The nett, hut not "corrected," death-rates of Bath and Eastbourne for 1900 were 17.1 and
10.3 per 1,000 persons respectively.
The 2,061 deaths of Parishioners comprised 996 of males and 1,065 of females, equal to deathrates
of 18.40 and 13.92 per 1,000 of each sex estimated living at all ages, compared with mean
rates of 18.55 and 13.73 for the preceding quinquennium (see Table 15). The deaths of residents

Correspondingly "Corrected " Rates, 1900:—
Croydon 15.22 Birmingham 23.79 Liverpool 28.17
Brighton 18.04 Manchester 27.34 Sheffield 25.12
in St. Mary's Sub-District (1,675) were equivalent to a rate of 17.22, being 0.06 less than the
quinquennial mean (17.28), and the deaths of residents in St. John's (386) to a rate of 11.57, or
0.45 in excess of the mean (11.12). In comparison with the preceding decennium (Table 16),
the death-rate for St. Mary (17.22) was 1.21 less than the mean, and that of St. John (11.57),
0.67. The number of deaths of residents in each Sub-District, and the estimated population
thereof, will be found in Table II. in Appendix A.