Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1894 — London’s Rate of Mortality. [ARTICLE]

London’s Rate of Mortality.

The rate of mortality of London is shown by a recent report to have steadily decreased with the introduction and perfection of adequate means for disposing of the sewage of the city. In the latter half of the seventeenth century the average annual mortality is estimated at something over 80 per 1,000; at the end of the eighteenth century it had dropped to 50 per 1.000, and in 1892 it was only \9.1 per 1,000.