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DEATH-RATE IN GREAT TOWNS.

The Registrar-General states the death-rate in the year 187-1 in 21 great towns of the United Kingdom as follows {—London, 22*5 deaths per* 1000 persons living ; Portsmouth, 20*1 per 1000 ; Bristol, 22*7 *, Sunderland, 23*4 ; Norwich, 23*5 ; Edinburgh, 23*0; Wolverhampton, 23*9 ; Leicester, 21*1 ; Nottingham, 21*8 ; Hull, 25*5 ; Dublin, 26 ; Birmingham, 26*8 ; Sheffield, 26*9 ; Bradford, 27 ; Leeds, 28*7 ; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 29*2 ; Oldham, 29*7 ; Salford, 29*6 ; Manchester, 30*04 ; Glasgow, 31T; Liverpool, 32 per 1000. In each case the population is estimated for the middle of the year. The Registrar-General is able also, from returns supplied by municipal authorities, to state the death-rato in 1871 in 16 other great cities of the world, as follows: Philadelphia, 19*3 per 1000 persons; Paris, 22*1; Brussels, 23’9 *, Bombay, 23*9; Brooklyn, 21*1; Vienna, 21*6 ; The Hague, 26*5 ; Amsterdam, 26*7 ; Turin, 26*7 ; Hamburg (State), 27 ; Copenhagen, 27'2 ; Rome, 27’5 ; New York, 27*5 ; Calcutta, 28'3 ; Berlin, 32*9 ; Madras, 37 per 1000 persons. The death-rates of these 16 cities are calculated upon the following as the enumerated or estimated population *. — Amsterdam, 282,000 persons ; Berlin, 828,000; Bombay, 611,105 ; Brooklyn, 450,000 ; Brussels, 185,000 ; Calcutta, 417,600 ; Copenhagen, 200,000 ; The Hague, 91,895 ; Hamburg (State), 357,453 ; Madras, 397,552 ; New York, 1,040,000 ; Paris, 1,851,792 ; Philadelphia, 775,000 ; Rome, 248,307 ; Turin, 214,425 ; and Vienna, 611,356 persons.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4487, 6 August 1875, Page 3

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DEATH-RATE IN GREAT TOWNS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4487, 6 August 1875, Page 3

DEATH-RATE IN GREAT TOWNS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4487, 6 August 1875, Page 3

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