PHYSICAL EVOLUTION 229 



Deaths under i year to 1000 births 

 registered in 1897. 



St George in-the-east 197 Different 



St Saviour (S. London) 195 London 



Limehouse (E. London) 193 



Hampstead (N. London) 127 



Stoke Newington (N. London) 121 



Plumstead (S. London) II6 1 



Poverty and a high infant mortality go together though there are 

 other minor factors. 



If we compare the big towns with the mainly agricultural 

 counties, the difference is most marked in the death-rate both 

 among infants and among the population generally. 



Deaths per looo living in 1896. 



All ages. Under 5. 



London l8'2 66*5 Town and 



Lancashire 19-8 66-4 country 



Wiltshire 13-8 29-2 



Westmoreland 13-4 28*2 



Lancashire with its big manufacturing towns beats even the 

 London death-rate for all ages. Not only is the country blessed 

 with easier conditions of life but the rate of living there is slower 

 and as a result there is greater longevity. In particular it must 

 be noticed how badly infants fare amid the squalor and racket of 

 big towns. Contrast the 28-2 of Westmoreland with the 66-5 

 of London ! Yet if we compare London with its past self, 

 there is a great improvement. 



Annual London death-rate to looo persons living. 



1 85 1-55 .... 24-8 London as 



1871-75 .... 22'9 awhole 



1893-97 .... 19-16 



The set of the tide must now be clear to anyone who has Estimate 

 taken the trouble to read the figures I have quoted. It ofthe 



amount 



only remains if possible to find some easily remembered fact of the 



1 See Annual Summary of Births and Deaths in London 1897. 



