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Norwich
Bristol
Halifax
London
19.7
The average death-rate of the 28 largest English towns
was 20.5, or nearly 4½ per thousand higher than the deathrate
of this Parish. The highest death-rates among these
towns were those of Preston with 27.l, Manchester with
26.5, Newcastle-on-Tyne with 26.l, and Cardiff with 25.7.
The average death -rate in 50 other large town districts
in England was 19.6, or just under the death-rate of London
proper. The only one of these districts which had a lower
death-rate than this Parish was Darlington, with 16.0; the
others most nearly approaching it being Maidstone with
16.2, Cambridge with 16.4, Accrington with 16.6, and
Southport with 16.9, and the highest of them being Stockport
with 24.6, Merthyr-Tydfil with 24.3, and Wigan with
23.5. The death-rate of Glasgow was 25.8, or lower than
in any year except 1882, when it was 25.4; that of Dublin
was 28.5, a higher death-rate than that of any other large
town in the United Kingdom, while that of Edinburgh was
only 18.2. Among foreign cities no death-rate is to be
found even approaching that of this Parish, the nearest to
it being the death-rate of Baltimore with 19.8 per thousand,
or just above that of London, Copenhagen with 20.4, Geneva
with 20.7, and Christiania with 20.l, and the highest being
Madras with 37.4. It is to be noted, however, that the
death-rate of Madras was as high as 50.7 in 1884.