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The death rate in the "Outer Ring" of Suburban Districts
around London, with a population slightly exceeding a million
persons, after correction for the County Lunatic Asylums, did
not exceed 15.0, against 15.9 in the preceding year. The death
rate in "Greater London," which is co-extensive with the
Metropolitan and City Police Districts, was 17.8 against 18.9 in
1887.
The death-rate in twenty-seven Cities and Boroughs, having
an aggregate population exceeding five millions, was 19.2; ranging
from 16.1 in Brighton, 16.3 in Derby, and 16.4 in Hull, to
23.9 in Preston and Blackburn, and 26.1 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 16.6,
Derby 16.9, Hull 16.9, Preston 25.9, Blackburn 26.0, and Manchester
29.0.
In twenty-two of the largest European cities, having an
estimated population of more than eleven millions of persons,
the mean rate of mortality was 25.4 per 1.000, and exceeded by
6.2 the mean rate in the twenty-eight largest English towns
including London, having an aggregate population exceeding
nine millions. The lowest rates were 19.8 in Stockholm, 20.3
in Berlin,, and 20 5 in the Hague, ranging upwards to 31.6
in Buda-Pesth, 31.9 in Prague, 34.6 in St. Petersburgh, and 36.8
in Moscow. The rate in Paris, 22.6, was lower than in
either of the three preceding years, although it exceeded the
rate in London by 4*1. The rate in Berlin was 20-3.
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.