Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1878 — Death-Rate in Cities. [ARTICLE]

Death-Rate in Cities.

According to a table prepared by the New York Health Department, in relation to the in proportion to population of the principal cities of the world, the two American cities that show the heaviest death-rates are Baltimore and Washington, the former being 25.41, and the latter 25.64 per 1,000. The death-rate in the principal foreign cities is considerably higher than in the principal American cities. We append a list of the cities, home and foreign: Death-Kata American Cities. Population, per 1,000. New York 1,089,302 24.50 Philadelphia 850,856 18.81 Brooklyn 527,830 21.53 Chicago 440,000 18.42 St. Louis 420,000 17.80 Boston 355,100 20.53 Baltimore 355,000 25.41 San Francisco 300,0( 0 18.85 Cincinnati 280,000 15.81 New Orleans 210,000 81.94 Washington 160,000 25.64 Pittsburgh 145,000 23.50 Providence 100.000 19.38 Charleston 67,000 81.81 Foreijn Cities. London 3,533,484 21.79 Paris (1872) 1,851,792 26.32 Berlin 991,343 30.08 Vienna 690,548 29.84 Glasgow 555,933 24.75 Liverpool 627,083 26.38 Hamburg 393.588 27.04 Birmingham 377,436 24.12 Manchester 359,213 27.31 Dublin (1871) 314,666 27.09 Belfast (1871) 182,082 27.07 Turin 225.664 26.84 Venice 140,251 29.26 Copenhagen 217,500 22.59 Calcutta 429,335 81.90 Havana 250,000 40.87 Melbourne 250,678 21.18 Alexandria 212,034 43.00