. The earth and its inhabitants .. . hey were bom, being 76-36 percent, of the total population of the British Isles. These constituted the local element of our to birthplaces there were 21,849,518 natives of England and Wales, 3,296,387 of Scotland,6,085,395 of Ireland, 139,322 of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, and 258,677 persons bomabroad and at sea. STATISTICS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 439 rural districts, for the impure air which the townsmen are compelled to breathemust necessarily shorten their lives. Yet there are many towns—and London isone of them—whose death rat
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . hey were bom, being 76-36 percent, of the total population of the British Isles. These constituted the local element of our to birthplaces there were 21,849,518 natives of England and Wales, 3,296,387 of Scotland,6,085,395 of Ireland, 139,322 of the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, and 258,677 persons bomabroad and at sea. STATISTICS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 439 rural districts, for the impure air which the townsmen are compelled to breathemust necessarily shorten their lives. Yet there are many towns—and London isone of them—whose death rate is comparatively lighter than that of certaincountry districts, for it is in large towns that we meet with the public institu-tions whose attention to the laws of hygiene reduces the number of there is not in the whole United Kingdom a more safe retreat frompremature death than the gaol of Perth. All other things being equal, the death Fig. 216.—The Local Element of the PopulationAccording to E. G. 0- Q Under 45 per cent. 45 to 75 per cent. 75 to 95 per cent. Over 95 per map is shaded to exhibit the number of persons living in the counties in which they were bom. rate of each town depends upon the purity of the drinking water, and whilstwealthy towns have been able to provide themselves with excellent water byconstructing reservoirs on the uplands or in the mountain valleys, the villagesaround have frequently nothing to look to but the rivulet soiled by the refuse oftheir huge neighbour. Many of the townsfolk are able, moreover, to enjoy anannual holiday, and to recruit their strength by a lengthened residence in bracingmountain air or on the seaside. The towns and villages which border the lakes ofCumberland and the lochs Scotland—Lomond, Katrine, Awe, Rannoch, Errocht— 440 THE BRITISH ISLES. are, in truth, but suburbs of London. * The same might be said of Brightonand of the many other watering-places which stud the coasts
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