A report on the sanitary condition of the town of Margate, from the year 1837 to 1862 : being a statistical account of the numbers dying and the cause of death of the inhabitants, visitors, and inmates of the Infirmary / by Edward Mottley.

Mottley, Edward.

Date:: [1863]

Credit: A report on the sanitary condition of the town of Margate, from the year 1837 to 1862 : being a statistical account of the numbers dying and the cause of death of the inhabitants, visitors, and inmates of the Infirmary / by Edward Mottley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$Ages of Eesident Peesoxs dying op Consumption. 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 y~\T* 4 T - M. F. M. w. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. Under 1 year - - J - - - - - 1 - 2 1 1 3 - - 2 - - - - 12 Unclcr 5 vears 1 ] 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 16 5 - 1 - - 1 - 1 - - - 1 1 - - 1 - 1 7 10 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 I 2 1 12 15 - - 1 2 1 1 1 2 - 1 1 1 2 1 2 4 1 1 2 - 1 25 20 4 1 3 2 3 3 1 1 3 1 3 1 1 3 3 33 25 - 2 2 2 4 O 'J 1 2 1 1 1 4- o O (T) o 1 1 1 4 44 30 4 2 2 2 1 5 1 3 4 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 1 a J ;i5 - 1 1 1 2 4 9 1 2 1 1 1 Q 2 2 2 2 28 40 3 1 1 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 4 1 1 4 1 1 33 45 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 29 55 1 o 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 30 05 1 4 75 85 6 1.3 10 15 5 6 18 20 6 19 10 15 11 11 12 15 7 12 15 18 11 ,3 13 11 4 10 312 CHAPTER YI. MOETALITT FROU DISEASES OF THE EESPIRATOEX OEGANS—INFLAilMATOET AFFECTIONS * Margate is very favourably situated with regard to this class of diseases— the third in fatality after Zymotic Diseases and Phthisis. It forms the tliird order of the third class of the llegistrar General, and varies greatly in its effects in different localities. An annual average mortality of li to 10,000 persons, in the stationary resident population, will bear a comparison with the most favoured districts of England— taking a position after the third in Dr. Greenhovv's table. Glendale Bootle Haltwhistle lOi 116 120 Margate 141 Mr. Stark, speaking of this class of diseases, says, in the Pourth Detailed Annual Keport for Scotland:— It might naturally have been expected that the greater shelter afforded to the inhabitants of towns, and their much less exposure to the inclemency of the weather, would cause a smaller proportion of the inhabitants of towns to be cut off by these diseases, than in the country, where, from persons being more engaged in out-door occupations, they are more exposed. It happens, however, quite otherwise, for the deaths of the inhabitants of the towns by these diseases are twice as high in propor- tion as in the rural districts. Insular districts . . . 129 Mainland rural districts . 194 Town districts . . . 405 Margate . 141 The remote insular districts of Scotland are eminently healthy, and their vital statistics in many instances resemble Margate, which in general takes a position between the insular and the rural mainland districts of Scotland. It is very curious to discover so close a resemblance between the mortality of a town, (that during the most unhealthy part of the year is so crowded with visitors and invalids), and remote and almost unknown regions—presumed to * This class comprises Laryngitis, Bronchitis, Plcmisy, Pneumonia, Asthma, and diseases of the Lungs. C$