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THE HEALTH OF IlnBAHT. 



INFANTILE MORTALITY. 



There is another very sensitive index to the comparative 

 health of different times and places, viz., deaths under one 

 year compared in proportion with births. The following table 

 shows the infantile mortality in the principal towns and cities 

 of Great Britain and Australia, based, when not otherwise 

 stated, on the average of the years 1877 to 1886: — 



Infantile Mortality in Towns of Great Britain and 

 Australasia. 



(Deaths under 1 year to 1000 Births.) 



Preston 218 



Dundee (1893) 218 



Leicester 201 



Blackburn 187 



Liverpool 183 



Salford 178 



Bolton 177 



Nottingham 175 



Manchester 174 



Brisbane (1883 to 1887) ... 174 



Norwich 173 



Adelaide (1884 to 1887 ... 172 



Leeds 172 



Cardiff 169 



Huddersfield 169 



Oldham 169 



Melbourne (1878 to 1888). 169 



Sydney (1878 to 1888) ... 168 



Birmingham 164 



London (1893) 164 



Sheffield 163 



Bradford 162 



Hull 161 



Here, again, the favourable 

 contrasted with 65 principal 



Twenty-eight English 



Towns 161 



Newcastle 160 



Wolverhampton 159 



Halifax 159 



Sunderland 157 



Plymouth 157 



Kilmarnock (1893) 157 



Govan (1893) 157 



Leith (1893) , 156 



Brighton 148 



Edinburgh (1893) 148 



Glasgow (1893) 146 



Bristol 145 



Derby 143 



Paisley (1893) 142 



Wellington (1883 to 1887). 142 



Portsniouth 138 



Birkenhead 137 



Perth (1893) 135 



Greenock (1893) 134 



Aberdeen (1893) 125 



S (1895) 125 



■^1894) 108 



position taken by Hobart as 



towns in Great Britain and 



Hobart 



Australasia is shown in that its infantile mortality is by far the 

 lowest of all, as in all deaths from every preventible cause. 



CONCLUSION. 



Particular climates and latitudes favour the development of 

 certain diseases, to which they are in some cases peculiarly 

 restricted ; and in widely distributed diseases, such as the 

 Zymotic, particular climates and latitudes, independently of 

 sanitary conditions, have a direct influence in favouring or 



