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all of these showing a considerable reduction on the deathrates
of the previous year.
The average death-rate of the 28 large English Towns
was 19'2, or over 3 per thousand higher than that of this
Parish; the highest death-rates amongst these Towns were
the following:—
Plymouth 22.3
Blackburn 23.9
Preston 23.9
Manchester 26.9
The average death rate in 50 other large Town Districts
in England was 18.4, being, as in 1886, almost the same as
that of London proper.
The death-rate of Edinburgh was 18.0, that of Glasgow
22.1, and that of Dublin 25.3, all, especially the last,
being considerably lower than those in 1887, that of Dublin
being lower than that of Manchester (the highest in
England) whereas it was nearly 2 per thousand higher than
that of Manchester in 1887.
As usual, the death-rate of no foreign city approaches that
of this Parish, the nearest to it being those of
Stockholm 19.8
Philadelphia 20.1
Berlin 20.3
The Hague 20.5
and the highest being—
St. Petersburgh 34.6
Moscow 36.8
Madras 37.8
Alexandria 38.8
Cairo 48.9