Country born.

Total.
Metropolitan Police 2,716 10,908 13,624 City " 194 698 892 Railway men, carriers, omnibus-drivers, corn and timber porters, and those in whose work physique tells most, are all largely drawn from the country.

Nor is the physical deterioration of city life to be merely measured by death-rates.

Many town influences, which do not appreciably affect mortality, distinctly lower the vitality, which must be taken as the physical measure of the value of life.

The denizens of city slums not only die twice as fast as their country cousins, but their health and vigour is less during the time they live.
A fair consideration of these facts discloses something much more important than a mere change in social and industrial conditions.