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METHODS OF SOCZAL REFORM.
The high mortality of Liverpool and Manchester iB here in
striking conformity with the large Irish population, and more
recent returns of the Salford mortality would also exhibit
conformity. Sheffield i~ the only serions exception.
In another calculation, I took a list of the mortality of
eighteen English towns in the year of the WII.SUE of 1861. I
separated the towns into three groups, according as the
mortality was :
1. At the rate of 28 or more per 1,000.
2. Betweon tho rates of 24 and 26.
3. At the rate of 24 or loss.
Tho percentage of Irish population in the aggregate of each
group, and the average mortality, were then found to be aa
follows :
! Percentage of
I Irbh Population.
TOW>L8 of High Mortality :
Liverpool, Nanchastar, Nawcmtlo,
Prcston, and Bolton . 21.9
TOIOM of Mcdiuna Nortnlity :
Loicester, Ashton, Oldham,
Blnckbnru, Sheffiold, Leods . 7.0
Avenge
Mortality.
Towns oJ’Lca8f Xorfulity :
Bradford, Nottingham, Birmingham,
Dudley, Stoke,
Wolvcrhampton, Stourbridge 5 *6
With the above me may compare London, which has an
Iriah population of 5.7 per cent., and a mortality of 23.6, on
the average of the years 1851-60.
Observing in another list that Altrincham, BakeweH, and
Warwick were districts of low mortality, the rate scarcely
exceeding 20 in 1,000, I calcuIated the Irish percentage SB
follows :
Per oent.
Ahinchern , , , , , . . 6.0
Bakewall . . . . . . . 22
Whok . . . . . . . 2.0