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rate in the three preceding years, the rate in the Outer Ring was
2.45 per 1000, and 23.1 per cent. above the average annual rate of
the same period.
The death-rate in the twenty-seven Cities and Boroughs
next in importance to London, and having a population exceeding
five millions, was 21.7, ranging from 16.5 in Nottingham, 17.8 in
Brighton, and 17.9 in Leicester, to 25.8 in Bolton, 25'9 in Newcastle,
27.4 in Preston, and 30.6 in Manchester, without correction
for differences between one town and another in regard to
the age and sex distribution of their respective populations. The
death-rates of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin were 20.0, 25.3,
and 26 .4 respectively.
In twenty-two of the largest European cities, having an
estimated population of about eleven and a-half millions, the
mean rate of mortality was 25.3 per 1000, and exceeded by 5.0
the mean rate in the twenty-eight largest English towns, including
London, having an aggregate population approaching ten
millions. The lowest rates were, Stockholm, 19.6, Christiania,
21.1, Brussels, 21.5, Copenhagen and Berlin, 21.6; ranging
upwards to 29 3 at Venice, 30 at Munich, 31.4 at Buda-Pesth,
and 40.3 at Moscow. The rate in Rome was 23'4, in Paris,
24.5, in Vienna, 24.6, and in St. Petersburgh, 28'4. In the
American cities the general death-rate from all causes ranged
from 18.7 in St. Louis, to 28.5 in New Orleans. At Cairo it was
44.8, and at Alexandria, 39.6 per 1000. In Bombay the rate
was 26'6, in Calcutta 28.5, and in Madras 42.9.
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