Practice question · True or false
Most nineteenth-century urban growth in Britain came from births in the towns themselves rather than from migration into them.
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- Compare death rates in the new industrial districts with those in the countryside.
- Early industrial cities consumed people faster than they produced them.
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False
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False. Mortality in the crowded districts was high enough that several fast-growing towns had more deaths than births for stretches of the period; growth came overwhelmingly from rural in-migration. The industrial city was a demographic sink that grew anyway because the countryside kept feeding it.
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