102 THOMPSON YATES LABORATORIES REPORT 
The districts of Walton, West Derby (rural), Wavertree, and Toxteth (rural), 
having been added in 1895, I nave ' m these notes only made observations on the 
statistics published since then, so as to be enabled to make comparisons of the various 
districts. The reports available previous to 1895 cover only the 7 remaining 
districts, an area of 5,210 acres instead of the 13,236 as at present, and having an 
average population of 1 1 3 per acre. 
Also, previous to 1894, the deaths occurring in public institutions were not 
referred to the districts from which the patient was admitted, as is now done. The 
statistics for 1899 were not available for incorporation with those of the previous 
four years. 
The following table shows the death rate per i,ooo, from all causes, for the 
four years 1 895-1898 inclusive : — 
TABLE II 
District 
Death Rate per 
1,000 popula 
tion 
Average 
of 
these rates 
1895 
1S96 
1897 
1898 
Scotland 
384 
34-5 
37-7 
36.4 
36.7 
Exchange 
4I.2 
37-2 
39-« 
36.9 
. 38.8 
Abercromby 
27.O 
22.4 
24.6 
24.5 
24.6 
Everton 
27.6 
24-3 
25.9 
24.5 
25.6 
Kirkdale 
24.4 
19.5 
22.1 
18.8 
21.2 
Wes: Derby 
H'3* 
214 
22.9 
21.1 
22.4 
Toxteth... 
20.8 
22.9 
21.3 
2 2.2 
Walton ... 
15-7 
1 2.7 
12.9 
12.9 
i3-5 
West Derby (rural) 
i7-5 
17.0 
16.3 
17.1 
Wavertree 
16.2 
14.6 
16.4 
16.3 
16.0 
Toxteth (rural) 
10.4 
9.8 
10.2 
9.9 
10. 1 
We find the death rate to be greatest in Scotland and Exchange Wards, where, 
in the parts which are occupied by dwelling-houses, the people are very much crowded, 
and even the simpler rules of hygiene are much neglected. The death rate here, too, is 
increased by the fact of there being many lodging-houses in the two districts which are 
the temporary abodes of the floating population incident to a large city, and increased in 
Liverpool by its immense shipping. The death rate is markedly less in the less 
congested districts. 
An idea of the class of people in parts of the city is conveyed by the fact that 
of 1,002 deaths from Tuberculosis in Exchange Ward, from 1895 to J %99> 5^3 
occurred in the Workhouse and Infirmary, and only 439 in the patients' houses. 
