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Rothbury 1,475 Newington 2,426
Hampstead 1,760 Greenwich 2,449
Lewisham 1,787 Strand 2,456
Hackney 1,880 West London 2,495
St. George, Hanover Rotherhithe 2,527
Square 1,891 Stepney
Kensington 1,985 Mile End 2,553
Islington 2,095 Westminster 2,581
Wandsworth 2,194 Chelsea 2,615
London (City) 2,222 Bermondsey 2,638
Pancras 2,232 Holborn 2,641
St. James,Westminster 2,290 St. Luke 2,736
Clerkenwell 2,309 St. George, South wark 2,744
Camberwell 2,319 East London 2,762
St.Martin-in-the-Flds. 2,345 Whitechapel 2,841
Bethnal Green 2,352 St. Giles 2,846
Lambeth 2,353 St. Olave, South wark) 2,863
Poplar 2,359 St. Saviour „
Marylebone 2,404 St.George-in-the-East 2,879
Shoreditch 2,421
I have headed the Table with the mortality of the District
of Rothbury, in Northumberland, which is the smallest of any
district in England and Wales; its population amounts to very
nearly that of our Goswell District. It is true that a rural district
has many advantages over a densely crowded manufacturing
district. For, in it, the inhabitants are scattered over more
ground, and their habits are very different; they rise early in
the morning, retiring early at night, and so avoiding the exposure
to the excesses too often committed during late hours. They
also breathe a purer air; the mothers are strong and hearty, and
are enabled to suckle their children during the proper period ;
while the mothers in crowded parishes are too closely confined
within doors; too often obliged to work and neglect their children,
whence these are fed upon improper food.
If the mortality of Clerkenwell were as low as that of
Rothbury, it would cause only 908 deaths yearly, instead of 1,509.
The subjoined Table represents the principal death rates
from the most fatal diseases in Rothbury and the neighbouring
District of Glendale, compared with those of Clerkenwell and
the adjoining overcrowded district of Holborn.