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MORTALITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
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towns in England, and still more, on the Continent,
where the death-rate is higher than under your
jurisdiction. Yet your Honourable Court will not
doubt, that the standard to be adopted for your
estimate of healthiness ought to be the lowest known
death-rate; that every avoidable death is an unqualified
evil to society; and that, if a mortality of
12, or 13, or 14 per thousand per annum can be
reached for one mixed population, there is ample
room for discontent among any other population,
which finds itself doomed to perish at double the
rate of the first.
3. In the third table (Appendix, No. III.) all the
deaths of the last three years are enumerated in a
form which may enable you to compare one year
with another, and one sub-district with another, in
respect of their several contributions to the total
mortality.
4. In the fourth table (Appendix, No. IV.) are
classified, according to the ages at which they
occurred, 9,476* deaths of the last three years. This
table is arranged in a manner to display its results—
(1) for each year separately, and (2) for each Union
separately, in order that you may observe what local
or annual differences have obtained as to the ages of
chief mortality. You will notice that in 3,469
* In the remaining number (17) the particulars of age and
residence could not be correctly ascertained.