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But it must be noted that these include country districts
in which the towns are situated. The highest death-rates
found among the 50 large Town Districts were those of—
Newport (Mon.) 24.1
Stockport
Ashton-under-Lyne 25.1
Ystradyfodwg 26.3
Merthyr-Tydfil 26.5
The death-rate of Edinburgh was 19.2 or 1 per thousand
higher than in 1885; that of Glasgow was 25.1, being 0.7
lower than in 1885; and that of Dublin 27.0, or 1.5 lower
than in 1885, but still higher than that of any other Town
in the United Kingdom, the nearest to it being MerthyrTydfil
with 26.5.
No Foreign city approaches the death-rate of this Parish,
the lowest being Chicago 19.5 (or 0.4 lower than London
proper); Baltimore, 20.1; Philadelphia, 20.7; Christiania,
21.4; and Stockholm, 21.9; and the highest being Marseilles,
35.0; Madras, 36.5; Budapesth, 37.8; Trieste, 38.0; Alexandria,
44.2; and Cairo, 47.3.
With regard to these high death-rates it is to be observed
that in Marseilles there were no less than 2,051 deaths from
Small-Pox during the year; that the death-rate of Madras,
although high, was nearly 1 per thousand lower than in
1885, and 14 per thousand lower than in 1884; and that
in Alexandria and in Cairo, Diarrhoea and Typhoid Fever
were prevalent during the year.