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CONTENTS.
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Number of Marraiges, Births, and Deaths, in the several
Unions of the City in 1878, and the Annual Averages
for the last Ten Years 8
Number of Marriages, Births, and Deaths, per 1,000 of the
Population in the City, and elsewhere 9
Proportion of Males and Females born in the City 10
Proportion of Births in the different Seasons 11
Influence of the Birth-rate on the Death-rate 11
Proportion of Male and Females Dying in the City 12
Proportion of Deaths in the different Seasons 12
Mortality of Children in the City and elsewhere 13
Causes of Death 14
Proportion of Deaths from each cause in every 1,000 Deaths 15
Classification of Deaths according to Zymotic causes for sixteen
years 17
Influence of Season on Disease 19
Sickness of the Poor of the City 19
Meteorology of the Year 20
Rainfall Humidity, Dew-point, and Temperature in each
Quarter of the Year in the City, and at Greenwich 20
Average Chemical Composition of the Metropolitan Waters
for the Year 1870 22
Comparative Salubrity of Places in England and Scotland
supplied with Hard and Soft Water 23
Average amounts of Water supplied daily to London and Paris
during each Month of the Year 27