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children were born, the birth-rate being 28.24, while in South-east
Islington there were 488 births, which gave a birth-rate 30.01.
The birth-rate of the corresponding third quarters of 1893 and 1894
were respectively 29.20 and 28.17, so that the rate now reported (29.59)
is slightly in excess of those periods. It was also slightly higher than the
birth-rate of the quarter immediately preceding, which was 29.27.
In London the birth-rate was 30.4, and in the 33 large towns 31.1
per 1,000.
DEATHS.
There were 1,292 deaths recorded in the third quarter, which were
equal to a death-rate of 15.37 annually of the estimated population.
Although these deaths showed the slight increase of 82 on the return for
the second quarter, yet it cannot but be looked on, when compared with
other populous places, as highly satisfactory. Indeed, I doubt very much
if there be any other great community of the same size which at the
present time shows such a small mortality rate. In the returns for the
third quarter issued by the Registrar General, I find that the death rate
for England and Wales was 17.4, for 100 towns, mainly Urban in their
character, 18.9, in the rural areas 14.4, in London 18.6, in the 33 largetowns
20.2, and in the North London Districts 15.94.
And if a comparison be made with individual large towns with populations
approaching that of Islington, it is still equally satisfactory. Thus in
West Ham the death rate was 19.1, in Bristol 14.4, in Birmingham 18.7,
in Nottingham 18.4, in Liverpool 28.2, in Manchester, 25.6, in Salford
27.2, in Bradford 20.9, in Leeds 20.9, in Sheffield 22.6, in Hull 25.3, and
in Newcastle 19.7.
The low death rate of the district is the more remarkable in view of
the fact that it is more densely populated than any one of the places I
have named. In order that this may be seen more plainly, I have
constructed the following table which shows the districts, whose inhabitants
number more than 200,000, their populations, their densities, and their
death rates from all causes, from Zymotic diseases, f'om Diarrhœa, and
from infantile mortality.