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The health of hobart. 



HOBART COMPARED WITH OTHER ToWNS AND ClTIES. 



The following table compares the death-rate from preventible 

 diseases in Hobart with corresponding death-rate in other 

 cities of Australia and Great Britain : — 



Deaths from Preventible Causes only in various 



Cities and Towns. 



( Death-rate per \0^0 persons living.) 



Hobart 



Hobart, mean 



Sydney, mean ... 

 Melbourne, mean 



Adelaide' 



Hobart, mean 



Coatbridge 



Aberdeen 



Sydney, mean 



Leith 



Edinburgh 



Melbourne, mean 



Average of 100 English towns, 



mean 



Govan and Partick 



London , 



Greenock 



Paisley 



Perth (Scotland) 



Adelaide, mean 



Dundee 



Glasgow 



Kilmarnock 



Period. 



1895 

 1894-5 

 1894-5 

 1894-5 

 1894-5 

 1884-93 



1893 



1893 

 1884-93 



1893 



1893 

 1884-93 



1884-93 



1893 



1893 



1893 



1893 



1893 

 1891-93 



1893 



1893 



1893 



All Pre- 

 ventible 

 Causes. 



Zymotic 

 Diseases. 



1-70 



3-53 

 2-07 

 3-06 



3-48 

 2-85 

 2-26 



•11 

 •71 

 •47 

 •77 

 •65 

 •65 

 •50 

 •49 

 •22 



The figures for eliminating "old age," and so confining 

 comparisons to Preventible Causes only, are not available in 

 respect of many other cities and towns of Great Britain and 

 Australia with which Hobart compares most favourably. 

 Among the 117 cities and towns where this elimination was 

 rendered possible, Hobart, by a long lead, takes the first 

 position as a city of health. Sydney takes the second. The 

 worst in order being the town of Kilmarnock, in Scotland. 



The superiority of Hobart and Sydney as healthy cities is 

 further confirmed by a comparison of the principal specific 

 causes, as in the following table, whose figures, as in other 

 tables, are taken directly from the Blue Books of the several 

 Registrars-General. The figures for Great Britain and 

 Australia refer to the year 1893; those for Hobart to the 

 mean of the two years 1894-5. 



