It is a surprising fact that Chicago has the lowest death-rate in the world for cities of 50,000 inhabitants andl upwards. Taking the census reports for the first quarter of the present year the rate in Chicago is 16.56 per 1000; in London, 23.1; in Paris, 23.8; in St. Petersburg, 29.5 ; in Berlin, 20; in New York, 23.27; and in Philadelphia, 23.65. The opening of the drainage canal has given Chicago an excellent supply of pure water which had long been needed, and if '.the general government of the city could be improved the death-rate might be still further diminished.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11533, 19 November 1900, Page 3
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