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Credit: Cholera precautions for 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![r 2 ■a cholera. These two were notified (as choleraic diarrhoea) on October 2nd and October 6th respectively. With the single exception of the case notified on October 6th, which proved fatal, all the notified cases of choleraic diarrhoea recovered. Of these 18 cases, 15 were between the ages of 25 and 60, two between the ages of 5 and 14, and one was 1 year of age. There was no exceptional incidence of this choleraic diarrhoea on any one part of Eotherham; the cases were, on the contrary, scattered throughout the district with tolerable equality. In view of this cholera and choleraic diarrhoea in Rolherham in 1893, it becomes of interest to note also the amount of illness designated as diarrhoea which existed in the district in that year. And first as to the number of deaths attributed to this cause in Kothei'liam during the second and third quarters of 1893. Of these there were 85, a number which is in excess of the total deaths from this cause in Rotherham in any complete year during the preceding decade. The appended table (Table I.) affords means of comparing year by year the death-rates in Kotherham from diarrhoea during the period 1883-93, and also allows contrast of the Eotherham diarrhoea death-rates v,'ith those of the 28 arge towns. Table I. * Showing the Number of Deaths referred to Diaerhcea in Eotherham during each of the Ten Years 1883-92, and in the Second and Third Quarters of 1893, together with the resulting Death-kates per Thousand living in each instance. For purposes of comparison the Death-rate yearly from the same cause in 28 large Towns during the same period is added. Rotherhaiti. 28 Large To'\vns. Year. Popula- tion. No. of Deaths from Diarrhoea. Death-rate per Annum fi'om Diarrhoea per l.OUO living. Diarrhoea Death-rate in Period 1883-92. Death-rate per 1,000 from Diarrhoea. In each of the Years 1883-92. 1833-92. 1883 36,301 8 0-22 0-77 1884 36,998 42 ] -14 1-21 1885 37,707 29 0-77 0-69 1886 3S,431 4, 1-07 0-97 1887 1888 39,168 39,920 42 21 1-07 0-53 - 0-88 0-97 0-60 • 0-82 1889 40,685 66 1 -62 0-82 1890 - 41,466 40 0-96 0-77 1891 42,261 37 0-87 0-67 1892 43,072 22 0-51 0-70t Second and third quarters of 1893. 43,898 85 1-94* l-07t * This is the rate per 1,000 living calculated not tor the whole year, but for six months only. + This rate is calculated on 33 large towns, not on 28 large towns, as in the remainder of the column. From these figures it appears that during the decade 1883-92 the death-rate from diarrhoea in Eotherham was slightly in excess of the death-rate from the same cause in the 28 large towns during that period. Also it appears that the Eotherham diarrhoea death-rate exceeded the average annual rate for that town, in 1884, 1886, 1887,1889, 1890, and again in 1893. Prior to 18S!3 .the highest point reached by the rate Avas in 188^, when it was 1 'U% per thousand per annum. But in 1893 the rate is seen to be considerably in excess of this, inasmuch as it is I -94 [jei thousand for a period of six months only. It is true that within that period fall those portions of the year during which diarrhoea most prevails; nevertheless, the figures for the whole year will, it may safely be assumed, give a rate at least somewhat in excess of that quoted. The death-rate from diarrhoea in the country generally, however, was in the summer of 1893 above the average; and, accordingly, I append a table (Table II.), Avhich affords means of comparing the death-rate from this cause in the borough of Eotherham with that from the samfe cause in the large towns and in England and Wales in the second and third quarters of 1893.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24398792_0002.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
