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accounted for by tho fact that tho pcoplo are moro crowded
together in Manchester, for whereas in that town there aro
84 persons to an acre, in London there are only 47; hut
this reason alone is not sufficient, for in Liverpool, where
there are rather moro than 101 persons to an acre, tho
death-rate has been less than that in Manchester during
each of tho last three years.
It is hardly necessary to add that no large Foreign
town has so low a death-rate as this Parish; although
Philadelphia (U.S.), with a population of 850,856, is not
far behind it (18.8).
Tho highest death-rates recorded during tho year wero
thoso of Madras (population 397,552), where both smallpox
and cholera were prevalent, and where the rate reached
the prodigious height of 116.7 per 1,000! and Bombay
(population 644,405), where cholera was also prevalent,
and the rate was 52 per 1,000. The corrected death-rato
of the Western Districts of London was 19.1, tho lowest
rate that has boon recorded for thoso districts—during the
last thirty-eight yoars, at any rato.

Table II. shows that tho total number of births registered