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Norwich 19.7
Birkenhead 19.8
Halifax 20.1
Cardiff 20.2
London 20.4
and these vary from 2 to nearly 5 per thousand above it.
Of fifty large town districts in England only one had a
lower death-rate than this Parish in 1883, namely, Barrowin-Furness
with 15.4. The average rate for these fifty
towns was the same as in 1882, viz., 20.4 per thousand per
annum, and the highest was Ashton-under-Lyne with 261.
The death-rate of Dublin has risen from 27.9 in 1882
to 29.2 for this year. Glasgow had also a higher death-rate,
having had 25.4 in 1882 and 28.2 in 1883. Next to these
come Manchester with 27.6, and Liverpool with 26.7.
Our death-rate was, as usual, considerably below that of
any foreign city; the lowest among these being Christiania
17.3, Philadelphia 22.2, Geneva 22.8, Baltimore 23.0, and
the highest Madras 39.4, Prague 35.3, St. Petersburgh 32.6.