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The following table, which gives the nett death rates for
England and Wales, and for each of the 76 Great Towns for
the year 1909, has been taken from the quarterly returns of the
Registrar General. It will be seen that only one other town in
the country had a lower death-rate than East Ham:—
Death Rate per 1,000.
England and Wales 14.5
76 Great Towns 14.7
Hornsey 8.3 Plymouth 14.5
East Ham 9.4 Walsall 14.5
Walthamstow 9.6 Newcastle-on-Tyne 14.8
King's Norton 9.7 Hull 14.9
Handsworth 9.8 Bolton 15.1
Leyton 10.3 Sheffield 15.1
Willesden 10.4 South Shields 15.1
York 11.4 Brighton 15.3
Reading 11.5 Newport (Mon.) 15.3
Tottenham 11.5 West Bromwich 15.3
Devonport 11.6 Birmingham 15.4
Croydon 11.7 Preston 15.8
W. Hartlepool 11.8 Binkenhead 15.9
Burton-on-Trent 12.0 Coventry 16.0
Barrow-in-Furness 12.2 Wolverhampton 16.0
Hastings 12.5 Burnley 16.1
Gateshead 12.6 Blackburn 16.2
Bournemouth 12.7 Bury 16.2
Bristol 12.7 Rochdale 16.2
Smethwick 12.8 Huddersfield , 16.3