Fourteen cases of ovariotomy / by Thomas Keith.

  • Thomas Keith
Date:
1864
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    Now as I have already pointed out, Liverpool, Manch Birmingham, Leeds, and Sheffield, have each a greater popv than 11 of the smaller English counties; and there are only lo the larger counties which exceed Liverpool. But this compari is not the most important matter. In the towns, the mortality greater, the marriages and births are more numerous, the ave~' age of the people is lower, the wages are much higher, the occu tions are more sedentary, the minds are more lively. Tot for th fifteen years no epitome has been given of the vast collection figures relating to them. More than this ; the form of registration is such that i impossible for anyone outside of Somerset House to get at t results. A few years ago, IMr. Commissioner Hill took some pa in a controversy as to the sanitary condition of the borough which he is recorder : he referred to these reports to ascertain t mortality: he confessed that he foimd himself baffled. Now in su matters many lawyers are easily bafSed : but Mr. Hill, besides bein an eminent lawyer, is fiimiliarly acquainted with what we now oa social science; and is moreover an arithmetician of imusual exce lence. A register unintelligible to him must be quite inaccessibl to the public. With reference to the same controversy, two othe gentlemen searched the reports; and so entirely with the sar:' result, that they were driven to ask the local registrars to suppt the figures they wanted. Of these two inquirers, one was the abl editor of a newspaper, the other was a professional accountant i large practice. If the registers are sealed books to such men, wha must they be to people generally ? I now proceed to explain, as I did with Table A, each column o figures. Columns 1 and 2.—My first two columns state the population of the various towns, first as given by the census, and then as given by the Begistrar-General. In noticing the corresponding columns in the table of counties, I pointed out that the Eegistrar made soin counties contain 5 or 10 per cent, more or less than they contain by the census; and that as a consequence, certain border parishes were transplanted into counties to which they did not belong topographically. But these county irregularities are nothing compared with thoPS' now before us. Liverpool with a census-population of 444,000, is reduced by the Registrar to 270,000: Manchester is reduced from 339,000 to 244,000 ; Birmingham, from 296 to 213; Bristol, from 154 to 66 (less than half) ; Leeds, from 207 to 118 ; Sheffield, from 185 to 128 ; Hull, from 98 to 57. Other towns are greatly exaggerated : as Bath, from a census- population of 53,000 to a register-population of 68,000 : Blackburn
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