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24
Comparative Mortality in the Nineteen Large Towns of
England and Scotland, referred to in the Registrar
General's Weekly Report for 1870, arranged under
the heads of Hard-watert and Soft-water Supply—
10 degrees of hardness being taken as the standard.
Hard-water supply.
Soft-water Supply.
towns.
Rate per 1.000 of
Population.
towns.
Rate per 1,000 of
Populution.
Births.
Deaths.
Births.
Death*.
London
24.1
Liverpool
37.0
34 .1
Portsmouth..
31.4
20.1
Manchester
36.6
27.8
Norwich
32.9
27.4
Salford
40.1
26.1
Bristol
38.5
29.9
Bradford
30.1
27.4
Wolverhampton
39.4
21.8
Leeds
40.2
28.1
Birmingham
36.2
21.1
Sheffield
39.5
26.3
Nottingham
31.4
21.1
Edinburgh
37.7
20.1
Hull
33.7
21 .8
Glasgow
41.3
29.5
Sunderland
37.4
20.1
-
—
—
Nwestl-on-Tyne
38.2
24-.1
-
—
—
Leicester
38.9
26.6
-
—-
-
Average
35.7
23.7
Average
38.9
28.1
Ditto for England—Birth-rate, .36.0; Death-rate, 23.5.
But the results are still more striking when we take
the averages of several years, as I have done in the
following table, where the annual birth-rates and
death-rates of 24 English and Scotch towns are
classified for the years 1861 to 1865 inclusive:—