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The death-rate in "Greater London," which is coextensive
with the Metropolitan and City Police districts, the
population in 1891 numbering 5,657,000, was 19.8 per 1000,
the rate in the three preceding years having been successively
18.3, 173 and 20.1—average 18.6. The deaths
properly belonging to the Outer Ring, as distinguished from
Inner or Registration London, were equivalent to a rate of
only 15.2 per 1000, the rate in the Inner Ring, as already
shewn, having been 21.4. The death-rate from the principal
zymotic diseases in Inner London, was 2.30 per 1000, in the
Outer Ring, 1.49 only, the rate for Greater London, as a
whole, being 2.09 per 1000.
The death-rate in the twenty-seven Cities and Boroughs
next in importance to London, and having a population
exceeding five millions, was 23.4, ranging from 18.2 in
Brighton, 19 0 in Portsmouth, and 19T in Derby, to 26.0 in
Salford, 26.5 in Manchester, 27.0 in Liverpool, and 27.3 in
Preston, 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 21.6, 25.3, and 26.5 respectively.
In twenty-two of the largest European cities, having an
estimated population of millions, the mean rate of
mortality was 24.6 per 1000, and exceeded by 24 the mean
rate in the 28 largest English towns: population 9½ millions.
The lowest rates were, in the Hague 19.5, and in Christiania,
19.8; ranging upwards to 30.5 in Trieste, and 37.0 in
Moscow. The rate in Paris, was 21.6, in Rome, 23.6, and in
Vienna, 24.5. In American cities the rate ranged from
21.5 in Philadelphia, to 26.0 in New York, and 27.0 in New
Orleans. The rate in Alexandria was 454, in Cairo, 53"7.
In Calcutta the rate was 27.9, in Bombay 29 0, and in Madras
52.5 per 1000,