Stockton incl. part of | | | | Middlesborough | | | | (4¾ years) | 26·64 | 1·09 | 561 | -- | | | | Stockton (5¼ years) | 22·49 | 0·62 | 208 | 258 | | | (5¼ | | | | years)| Guisborough, incl. part| | | | of Middlesborough | | | | (4¾ years) | 24·80 | 1·17 | 251 | -- | | | | Guisborough | | | | (5¼ years) | 20·45 | 0·38 | 71 | 106 | | | | Middlesborough[405] | | | | (5¼ years) | 19·93 | 0·63 | 272 | 460 | | | (5¼ | | | | years)| | | | | Auckland | 24·52 | 0·71 | 541 | 318 _South Wales Mining Districts._ Pontypridd[406] | 23·16 | 0·71 | 515 | 541 Merthyr Tydvil | 24·23 | 0·62 | 639 | 249 Swansea | 22·38 | 0·63 | 505 | 387 Llanelly | 20·93 | 0·8 | 330 | 165 In the second decennium of the Table, 1881-90, the total deaths from enteric fever (the death-rates are still unpublished) are much below those of 1871-80. All the counties of England and Wales have shared in that notable decline, including Durham and Glamorgan. But these two great districts of the coal and iron mining are, by the latest returns, still keeping the lead; and it is probable that we shall find in them, or in particular towns within them, the conditions that have been most favourable to enteric fever in the earlier decennia of this century and are still favourable to it. First it is to be observed that one of the most noted of the old typhoid centres in Glamorgan, namely Merthyr Tydvil, has ceased to be in that class; its enormous rate of growth has been checked (to 18·9 per cent. from 1881 to 1891) and it has at the same time become a more uniform and better-ordered municipality.