Volume 1

Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton].

  • Roberton, John, 1797-1876
Date:
1827
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the mortality and physical management of children / [John Roberton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By the census of 1811, the population was 108,338. In the year 1821 it had risen to 141, 487, being an increase in 10 years of 33,149. Liverpool has been long noted for the longevity of its inhabitants. At the last Census there were only 14 persons in the county of the age of 100 years or upwards; and, of that number, 6 resided. in Liverpool. Taking the mean number of inhabitants which is 124912, and the annual number of deaths on the average of the above 10 years which is 3173, we find that one out of every 39.36 died annually between the years 1811 & 1821. The number of families is 25309; of which 11421 only are employed in trade or manufactures. MANCHESTER....In this town no mortality bill is published. Before 1812 the ages of the dead are not noticed in the registers. I have examined the list of interments at the Collegiate Church for 8 years, from 1816 to 1823 inclusive, and also the lists at Rusholme Road cemetery for four years—from April 1821 to the same month in 1825. In the registers of neither place are the still-born entered. My researches have been confined to these two burial grounds, believing that the results may be taken as a tolerably fair exhibition of the rate of mortality for the town at large.