[Report 1877] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.
- Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
- Date:
- 1877
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Credit: [Report 1877] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![BIENNIAL EEPOKT OF HEALTH COMMITTEE. The Health Committee submit, for the information of the Council, the Biennial Report of the Officer of Health in relation to the business of the department. On behalf of the Committee, Town Hall, (Signed) Thos. Schofield, 22nd July, 1878. Chainnaiu [copy.] Repokt of the Officer of Health. To the Chairman and Members of the Health Committee. Gentlemen,—So long a time has elapsed since the census of 1871, that the numbers then obtained serve only as bases for the calculation of the popula¬ tion of the city of Manchester at the present time. From the revised returns of the population of the township of Manchester furnished by the late Mr. Ner Gardiner, the Superintendent Registrar of Manchester, to the Guardians of the Poor, it appears that according to the census there were in 1871 within the township 174,265 persons inhabiting 32,431 houses, or 5*37 persons to each house. This number became reduced in the office of the Registrar-General to 5*33. In the township of Clieetham there were 21,962 persons residing in 3,719 houses, or 5’9 persons to each house. Mr. Edgill’s return gave for the townships within the city included in the Chorlton Union, viz., Hulme, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, and Ardwick, 153,031 persons living in 30,425 houses, or 5'02 persons to each house. By a very careful examination of the Overseers’ or Assessors’ books of the respective townships within the city of Manchester for the year 1877, in which the houses occupied as dwelling houses w^ere alone enumerated, all empty houses or other buildings not inhabited as dwellings being excluded, it was found that there were for that year in the— Township of Manchester . 32,168 inhabited houses. “ Cheetham. 4,480 (i “ Beswick . 1,359 i i Townships of Hulme, Chorlton- upon-Medlock, and Ardwick 32,563 i 1 Total. 70,570 a Applying to the number of houses in the township of Manchester the multiplier derived from Mr. Gardiner’s return (5.37), it will give as the population of the township 172,742 persons, whilst that adopted by the Registrar-General (5*33) will give 171,455 persons.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29785005_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
