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DE. EAEE OJS" THE COXSTEECTIOX OF LIEE-TABLES 
VII. LIFE-TABLE OF THE SIXTY-THEEE HEALTHIEST EXOLISH DISTEICTS. 
Upon inquiry it was found that in many districts of England the mortality of the 
population did not exceed the rate of 17 annual deaths to 1000 living. 
For the sake of convenience these were called healthy districts, consisting of sixU-foui. 
or nearly a tenth part of the total registration districts of England and ales, and inha- 
bited by nearly a million of people : sixty-three of these districts have been taken as the 
basis of the new Life-Table, constructed according to the methods previously described. 
It will be seen that these districts, generally conterminous with Poor Law Unions, are 
distributed over the various parts of the country. They comprise — -Hendon (with Har- 
row*) (17), Lewisham (17), and Bromley (17) in the neighbourhood of London; Harn- 
hledon (16), Dorking (17), Beigate (16), and Godstone (17) on the southern slope of the 
Surrey hills; East Ashford (17) in East Kent, Blean (including Herne Bay) (17) be- 
tween Canterbury and the sea ; ten districts of Sussex — Battle (16) near Hastings, EoH- 
hourne around Beachy Head (16), Hailsham (17), TJckfield (1 i ), East Gviiistead (1 / ), CucK- 
jield (16), Steyning near Brightoii (16), Petivorth (17), Worthing (17), and 2Ddhurst (17); 
seven districts of Hampshire — the Isle of Wight separated from the mainland by the 
sea (17), Lymington ( 17 ), Christchurch {W), Bingwood (17), Heiv Eorest (17), Gathering- 
ton (17), and Alresford (17); Wokingham (17), and Easthanipstead (16) in Berkshhe, 
south of the Thames; Ongar ( 17 ) m Essex, east of Epping Forest; Mutford (17), in- 
cluding Lowestoft on the SutFolk coast; Henstead (17), south of Norwich; Kingshridge 
( 17 ), on the south coast of Devon; Okehamgyton (16); Crediton (17), Barnstajyle (17), 
Torrington ( 17 ), Bideford ( 17 ), Holsworthy (16), stretching from the centre over Dait- 
mouth and Exmoor, along the coast of the Bristol Channel; Stratton (1/), Camelford 
(17), and Launceston (17), in the adjacent parts of Cornwall, and further south St. Co- 
Imnb (17); Williton (17) in Somerset, also on the Bristol Channel; Winclicomh (17), to 
the east of Cheltenham, and the Cotswold Hills around the sources of the Thames ; 
Kings Norton (17) in Worcestershire, adjoining Birmingham; Melton Howhray (17) iii 
Leicestershire; Southwell ( 17 ) about Sherwood Forest, in the centre of Nottinghamshhe , 
Garstang (16) in Lancashire, looking northward over Lancaster Bay; Easingwold (IT) 
in the North Biding of Yorkshire, Guishoroiigh (16) on the eastern coast north of YTiitby ; 
then follow five border districts of Northumberland on the southern face of the Cheriot 
l\{W-,—Belford ( 17 ), Glendale (16), Bothhury ( 15 ), Bellingham (17), Halhohistle (16) 
(is omitted in the Table); Longtown (17) and Brampton (17) on the border, and Bootle 
(16) on the coast of Cumberland, the East Ward (17) of Westmoreland, Haverfordwest 
(17) , on the western point of South Wales; Builth (16), Corwen (1/), Pwllheli (17) on 
Carnarvon Bay, and Anglesey (17) complete the list. These districts, and others nearly 
equally healthy, have been thus described : — 
“ Such is the variety of the soil of England, that tested by the rates ot mortality', the 
children reared out of a given number born, the longevity of the inhabitants, the free- 
* The annual deaths to 1000 living of all ages inserted in parentheses are deduced from retiu-us of the 
living at the censuses 1841 and 1851, and the deaths registered in the ten years 1841 to 1850. 8ee 
Eegistrar-General’s Sixteenth Eeport, pp. 141-153. 
