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death rate in "Greater London," which is co-extensive with
the Metropolitan and City Police Districts, was 18'9 against
19 3 in 1886,
The death rate in twenty-seven Cities and Boroughs, having
an aggregate population exceeding five millions, was 21.6, ranging
from 169 in Brighton, and 17.1 in Derby, to 27.9 in
Preston, and 28.7 in Manchester, without correction for differences
between one town and another in regard to the age and
sex distribution of their respective populations. With such
correction, Brighton shows a death rate of 17.3, Derby 17.8,
Preston 30.3, and Manchester 31.9.
In fifty other Town Districts of considerable size, and
containing in the aggregate a population of nearly three
millions, the death rate in the year was 19.0 per 1,000, ranging
from 12.4 in Maidstone, and 13 3 in Burton-on-Trent, to 23.8
in Stockport, and 24.9 in Wigan. The death rate in England
and Wales as a whole was, as already stated, 18.8 per 1,000.
In twenty-live of the largest European cities, having an
estimated population of more than eleven millions of persons,
the mean rate of mortality was 25.1 per 1,000, and exceeded by
4.3 the mean rate in the twenty-eight largest English towns
including London, having an aggregate population of more
than nine millions. The lowest death rates were 19.9 in the
Hague, 20.8 in Geneva, and 20 9 in Brussels, ranging upwards
to 30.0 in Prague, 30.1 in Trieste, and 32.0 in Buda-Pesth.
The rate in Paris was 23'4, and was lower than in either of the
two preceding years, although it exceeded the rate in London by
3.8 : the deaths referred to Measles, Typhoid Fever and Smallpox
considerably exceeded the numbers returned in 1886.
Having premised so much by way of general introduction,
it will be well, before proceeding to deal in detail 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.