The rate of mortality in Manchester / by James Whitehead.

  • James Whitehead
Date:
1863
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The rate of mortality in Manchester / by James Whitehead. 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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    population, acreage-density, and death-rate atfecting the permanent inhabitants of the two districts respectively will stand as follows :— K Area in Population Persons to Deaths to Statute Acres. in 1861. the Acre. 100 Births. •I St. John 260 37,483 144-16 63-85 St. Margaret 657 30,730 46’77 77.74 The Houses of Parliament are situated in the district of St. Margaret, and it was probably the regurgitating air of the large sewers in its concen- trated essence that so frequently offended the noses of “ honourable members” on recent occasions, and not the effluvia from the river. Again. The two parishes of Marylebone situated inland, and Chelsea on the river, may be contrasted with similar results. Marylebone, now centrally located and crowded, having a density of 107 to ^ ,1, the acre, has a death-rate of 77-41; while Chelsea, V with an acreage population 34 lower in density, and comparatively suburban, has a death-rate of 77-56. X The death-rate difference is certainly not great, but the less crowded state of Chelsea and its external position, ought to render it much more healthy com- paratively. The items stand as below:— Area in Population Persona to Deaths to Statute Acres. in 1861. the Acre. 100 Births. Marylebone 1,509 161,680 107-13 77-41 Chelsea 865 63,439 73-34 77-56 Another still more remarkable instance is fur- nished by the two districts comprised in the ]iarish
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