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London and these towns being 37.7 per 1,000: Brighton,
which had the lowest death-rate of any large town in
England in 1876, had also the lowest birth-rate, viz., 30
per 1,000.
On the other hand Table II. shows that the number of
deaths of Children under one year was less than in either of
the three preceding years, and that the percentages of such
deaths to the Registered Births,* and to the total deaths were
also less than in either of those years—a very satisfactory
fact. The percentage of deaths of Children under one year
of age to Births registered, viz., 15.09, was rather less than
it was in London generally, viz., 15.7, and was, in fact, less
than in any one of the 20 large English Towns mentioned
by the Registrar-General, except Portsmouth, where it was
14.2, so that it is clear that the infantine mortality of the
Parish is small, although it would be still smaller were it
not for the infanticides committed in the Parks and in the
Serpentine.

Table III. is new to my Reports, and is substituted for
the Tables showing the causes of death, which I am no longer
* Except in one instance.