Social and economic statistics of Glasgow : with observations on the mortality bills and cholera of 1854 / by John Strang.

  • Strang, John, 1795-1863.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Social and economic statistics of Glasgow : with observations on the mortality bills and cholera of 1854 / by John Strang. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or 40-83 per cent, of the whole deaths during the year, being 8-40 per cent, less than the previous twelvemonths. For the sake of future reference, we present the following Table of INFANTILE MORTALITY in Glasgow for the last seven years, with the proportional deaths at each age to the 100 deaths of all ages. Under 2 yeara. Two years to 5. 2,896 3,865 3,647 3,963 .3,481 4.517 4,294 ],494 1,545 1,095 1,502 1,534 2,529 2,385 26,663 12,084 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. 1853. 1854. Total. 4,390 5,410 4,742 5,465 5,015 7,046 6,679 Proportion per Gent, of whole Deaths. 35-19 42- 50-03 50-85 47- 49-23 40-83 38,747 Although it thus appears that during the last twelvemonths, the infantile deaths, when compared with the whole deaths, are much less than they have been since 1848, it must be remembered that this does not arise from any actual decrease of deaths among the young, but because there has been a most extraordinary increase in the deaths of adults—the result of the existence of Asiatic cholera. When the average amount of infantile deaths occurring during the last seven years, Avhich appears to be 5,535, is measured by the amount of the population under five years of age which was ascertained, by the census of 1851, to exist in Griasgow, forming the mean of those years, and which was 44,834, it will be found that the annual amount of infantile deaths in this city to the population under five years, is as 1 to 8-10; the proportion of infantile deaths to the whole deaths during the same period being 44-56 per cent. As a comparison of our infantile mortality at present with what it was last century, I may mention that in the Mortality Bill of 1775, which is now before me, I find that out of the whole deaths which occurred duruig that year in Glasgow, amounting to 1,280, 740 died under five yeai's of age, or 57-81 per cent., showing a difference in favour of the present period of 13-25 per cent. Carry- ing owT comparison a little farther, I looked into the Annuatre of