[Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool City.

  • Liverpool (England). City Council.
Date:
1881
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Credit: [Report 1881] / Medical Officer of Health, Liverpool City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was 2‘0 per cent., and relatively to deaths from zymotic causes 10*4 per cent. Its deaths included 150 males and 143 females; 84 persons below the age of 15s 83 between the ages of 15 and 30, and 136 above the age of 30. Under the term Fever every form of continued fever is included ; but the registers of deaths attribute 4 cases to gastric fever, 81 to typhoid fever, 35 to enteric fever, 13 to continued fever, 3 to febris, 143 to typhus, 10 to fever, and under that of febricula 5 deaths. The following tables are in themselves sufficiently explanatory. The first compares the averages of deaths from fever during the preceding ten years with those duriug 1881; the second and third tables show the districts of the town and the periods of the year in which all forms of continued fever were most fatally prevalent; the fourth marks in streets the habitats of the disease ; and the remaining tables the occupations and positions of its victims. WARDS. Exact Average of Fever Deaths for Pre¬ ceding Ten Years. Deaths from Fever during the Year 1881. Scotland.... 47 32 Yauxhall .................................. 9 9 St. Paul’s ...... 7 4 Exchange .......... ...... 5 9 St. Anne’s... 18 7 Lime Street ..... 6 3 Castle Street...... 1 .. St. Peter’s..... 3 1 Pitt Street... 5 2 Great George. .... 8 2 Rodney Street . 6 1 Abercromby . 9 4 Everton.. . . . ) 26 Kirkdale ...$ /z 23 West Derby. 23 10 North Toxteth... 19 11 South Toxteth. • 23 2] Hospital Deaths . 148 127 Total .. 409 292 In the above table the averages have been calculated without making allowance for increase of population.