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With such correction, Brighton shews a death rate of 17.6, and
Preston one of 31.1. In fifty other Town Districts of considerable
size, and containing in the aggregate a population of nearly three
millions, the death rate was 19.9 per 1,000, and exactly the same
as that of London—the recorded death rates ranging from 14.7 in
Gloucester, and 14.8 in Hastings, to 26.5 in Merthyr Tydfil.
The death rate in England and Wales as a whole was, as already
stated, 19.3 per 1,000.
In twenty-four of the largest European cities, having an
estimated population of more than ten millions of persons, the
mean rate of mortality was 27.2 per 1,000, and exceeded by 6.3
the mean rate in the twenty-eight largest English towns dealt with,
and having an aggregate population of over nine millions. The
lowest death rates were 21.4 in Christiania, and 21.9 in Stockholm;
the rates in the other towns ranged upwards to 35.0 in
Marseilles, 37.8 in Buda-Pesth, and 38.0 in Trieste. The rate
of mortality in Paris was 24.6 against rates ranging between 28.6
and 23.5 in the five preceding years, and exceeded by as much
as 4.7 per 1,000 the rate recorded in London.
Having premised so much by way of general introduction, it
will be well, before proceeding to deal with the statistics of our
own parish, to say a few words with respect to the
REGISTRATION DISTRICT AND SUB-DISTRICTS,
in which we are locally interested.
"Kensington," prior to 1st January, 1885, was the title of a.
Registration District, No. 1 on the Registrar-General's list, comprising
the parishes of Kensington and Paddiugton. Since that
date the parish of Kensington has been constituted a separate
Registration District, and is numbered 1b. It contains 2,190
acres according to the Registrar-General; but in your Vestry's
Annual Report the area is given as 2,245 acres. In 1871 the