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The death-rate of Dublin, which had increased from
28 in 1877 to 36.1 in 1880, has gone down to 27.1 in 1881,
a very remarkable decrease. Liverpool comes next to it
with 26.7, a slight decrease on its rate for 1880; and then
Manchester with 25.5, and Glasgow with 25.3. The deathrate
of Salford, which is usually higher than that of
Manchester, and which was 28 in 1880, has gone down to
22.6 in 1881.
N.B.—The rates for the years 1877-1880, mentioned
above, are different from those given for the same years in
previous Reports, on account of the corrections of the
estimated populations of the towns made since the Census
was taken.
Of 50 large town districts in England (excluding the
20 largest towns already referred to), only the following had
lower death-rates than this Parish in 1881:—
Reading 14.2
Maidstone 14.3
Dover 15.4
Cheltenham 15.9
Hastings 16.0
Walsall 16.5
Cambridge 16.6
and these mostly include country districts. The average
rate for these 50 towns was 19.6 per thousand per annum,
and the highest was 24.6 for Merthyr Tydfil.
Our death-rate was, as usual, considerably below that of
any large foreign city; the lowest among these being
Christiania 18'8, Geneva 212, Copenhagen 22.1, and
Philadelphia 22.5; and the highest, Madrid 37.4, Madras
38.8, and St. Petersburg 514. The death-rate of Madras
declined from 44.8 in 1880 to 37.4 in 1881, while that of
St. Petersburg rose from 46.1 in 1880 to 51.4 in 1881.