Death

Rate per iooo of population is as follows Under 20 at Birmingham, Brighton. Christian a, Portsmouth, St. Louis, and San Francisco; in Ireland, Denmark, and Sweden. Over 30 in Europe, at Breslau. Madrid, Milan, Munich, Naples, St. Petersburg, and generally in Austria-Hungary. In London it is only 211, compared with 28 6 in Paris, 27 6 in Berlin, 29 in Vienna, 37 4 in Madrid, and 51*4 in St. Petersburg. The number of deaths under years of age is enormous in Austria, Italy, and Spain; those between and 10 in England are very few. Most deaths happen 5 in England in spring, in Holland in autumn, and in Italy in winter. March is the fatal month in London, January in France., The death rate for babies is higher in the middle than in the working cla . The lightest death-rate for profe ions is amongst clergy, io’6 per 1000, and heaviest amongst surgeons, 19'x; that for grooms is only i2’6, while that for publicans is 27. In ordinary times the death-rate for civilians is io'02 per 1000, compared with 6*66 for soldiers and 1910 for merchant navy. The proportion of violent deaths per xooo varies from 7 4 in Ru ia up to the appalling 41 - i of the U.S.A. United Kingdom is very Dad with 33*1, while Franca is only 197 and Italy 8'3. higher. That of 1346 probably carried off in Europe 876.000 victims that of 1656 in Naples lasted 28 weeks, and killed; 13,400 a week; that of 1665 in London had a record of 33 weeks, with 2100 victims a week; that of 1730 in Marseilles 36 weeks, with 1100 a week that of 1771 in Moscow 32 weeks, with 2700 a week; that of 1778 in Constantinople 18 weeks, with 9500 a; week that of 1798 in Cairo 25 weeks, with 3500 a week;; that of 1812 in Constantinople 13 weeks, with 11,100 a week; that of 1834 in Cairo 18 weeks, with 3200 a week that of 1871 in Buenos Ayres 11 weeks, with 2400 a; week. These figures do not include cholera, which carried off 761,000 in 1848, 905.000 in 1854, 621,000 in 1873.