A manual of hygiene : public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws ; for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron.
- Charles Alexander Cameron
- Date:
- 1874
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of hygiene : public and private, and compendium of sanitary laws ; for the information and guidance of public health authorities, officers of health, and sanitarians generally / by Charles A. Cameron. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![improvement which has taken place in the health of 24 towns by the drainage operations. Table Showing Improvement of the Public Health by Sanitary Work. DKATH-RATES PER ANNUM, TOTAL AND PARTICULAR, PER 10.000 OF GENERAL POPULATION , FOR EACH OP THE COMPARED] PERIODS. A B C D E F General Death- rates Periods for which lifter ex- Diarr- Towns. the Death- General Death rates. cluding hoea, Cholera in rates are com- pared. Small- pox and Typhoid Fever. exclud- ing each of the three Epi- Phthisis. other Cholera demics. In- ■ so called fantine Epi- demics. ^A 1 2 ... CD 2.J.S . cu .a . x: . -S r^ ■^ <! oi o x: . -3 m S 3 25* ^ o < cq 1 After tl 1 Works Before t Works i2 5 -2 o T i Tji 50 op 31 Bristol, 1847—51 1862—65 245i 242 !215 205f 10 H 101 9* 82 11 Leicester, 1845-51 1862—64 264 252 2361 225i 141 7f 16 19 j 1 10 43* 29i Merthyr, 1845—55 1862—65 332 262 292i 221| 21i 81 11* H 267 84 20 3S| 3H C h 6 It e n- ham, 1845-57 1860—65 194 185 182 172 8 4| 8J 7 28f 21* Cardiff, 1847—54 1859—66 332 226 294 191* 17* 10* 17* ^ 208 66 15* 34| 28| Croydon, 1845—50 1857—64 237 190 207 178i 15' 5* 10 7 27 21 2 ? ? Carlisle, 1845—53 1858—64 284 261 244 225 10 n Hi 12* 22 6 32 353 M a c c le s- fieia. 1845-52 1857-64 298 237 2631 217* 14i 8^ lU 11 9 1 51* 35f Newport, 1845-49 1860—65 318 216^275 187* 16^ 10* 11 H 112 1* 12 37 25 Dover, 1843-53 1857—65 225i 209 203 187 14 9 9* 7 40 10' 4§ 26.1 21* Warwick, 1845—55 1859—64 227' 210 209| 191i 19 9 5f 8 10* 40 32^ 15| Banbury, 1845—53 1857 -64 234 205 214 184* 16 8* 114 5* 2 n 26| Penzance, 1843—50 1856—65 221 222 197i 200| 7* 8' 5-J 9i 30| 29 Salisbury, 1844-52 1857—64 275 219 253§ 198* vi If 6a 2i 180 14* 44i 22| Che 1ms- ford. 1843-52 1855—65 1961 215 180 187^ 12 12§ 7 8 4 32* 32| Ely, 1845—52 1859—64 228 205i 210 186J 10| 4* 3f 4| 22 -3 31 ICf Rugby, 1845-51 1855-64 191 186 164 164i 10 9 2J 7* 28* 16* Penrith, 1845—52 1856—64 253* 250 235* 2301 10 4^ SS 4f n k * 39* 37* Stratford, 1845—53 1860—64 217 202 212i 178 12* 4 11* 5? 26f 26* Alnwick, 1845—511856-64 262 247 !240 221* 13* 8f 7 4| 205 28* 33 Brynmawr, 1843—52 1856—65 273* 232i 232 209 23* 10* 5 4| 100 *^3 28* SO Worthing, 1843—52 1857—65 155' 153 ,139 136* 7* 9i 4f 5* 30* 19* Morpeth, 1845—52 1856—64 262 247 .234 225 16| 10 8* 14* i'4 ii* 3()i 28 Ashby, 1845—51 1855-64 216 202*213 114 13i 6f 4 8| 25^ 31i In many of these towns the diminution of the mortality from cholera during its successive invasions is unquestionably due to improved drainage and water supplies. The diminution of thoracic complaints seems due to the drying of the soils, which, as a general rule, followed the construction of main sewers. At Salisbury fatal cases of pulmonary phthisis have been reduced to the extent of 49 per cent. ; at Rugby, 43 per cent.; and at Worthing, 36 percent. In those towns in which no decrease in the cases of phthisis has been observed, the disease, with but few exceptions, had not been excessive before the drainage operations, probably, in most cases, because the subsoil was naturally dry. Measles,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045045_0141.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
