Report of Dr. Sidney Coupland on the outbreak of small-box in the Dewsbury Union in 1891-2.

  • Sidney Coupland
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1894
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Credit: Report of Dr. Sidney Coupland on the outbreak of small-box in the Dewsbury Union in 1891-2. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Small-pox in Previous Years.—For nearly nine years the Dewsbury Union had enjoyed an almost complete immu- siity from small-pox until the outbreak in 1891. This fact ahine deserves mention in view of the presumed liability to the introduction of the disease by infected rae;s coming i:rom abroad. Were this a common medium of small-pox infection it is hardly conceivable that outbreaks of the disease should not be, as frequent in these industrial centres as they are in the main seaports, where hardly a year passes without the introduction of some cases into the port. At the same time, the periods of its incidence in this district has fairly corresponded with the general prevalence in England as a whole. I am again unfortunately not able to give complete returns, but the subjoined table (VII.) comprises most of the districts of the Union, and those the most populous. It will be seen that sraall-pox was the cause of many deaths in the years 187'i to 1875. The period 1871-75 stands highest of all the seven quinquennial periods, 1888-90, for the small- pox mortality in England. In that quinquennium the small-pox deaths in the whole country were 41U'8 per million living. During each of the next quinqennia this rate for the whole country is precisely the same, viz., 784; and it will be observed that the figures given in the appended table, approximate to the degree of reduction in mortality from small-pox thus expressed for the whole country. Finally, in the five years 1886-90, when the general death-rate from small-pox was as'low as 13'2, only two deaths are given as occurring in Dewsbury. Table VI. Comparative Statistics of Mortality in Groups of Years in Various Districts of the Dewsbury Union. Periods of Years. i.VLC(lii Ul total Deaths m each Period Proportion to Mean Total Deaths of Deaths from Fever. Small •pox. Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria. Me a sles. Diarrhoea and Dysentery. (Per 100 Deaths from all Causes.) Batley , - - 1873- -77 605 3 1 0 8 8 2 ? 6 4 1884- -87 6U1 1 2 3 4 2-6 3 •9 6 2 1888- -92 599 1 4 2 0 1 8 1-6 2 ■2 4 0 Birstal - - - 1875- -77 136 2 7 3 6 ? ? 1 6 1878- -82 149 2 7 0 1 4 0 0-4 1 •7 1 6 1883- -92 133 0 4 0 3 0-6 2 •8 0 4 Dewsbury 1873- -77 692 3 3 4 3 7 6 ? ? 3 1878- -82 752 2 0 0 6 3- 1 0-2 2 • 0 4 0 1883- -97 651 1 4 2 3 0*3 1 2 S •6 1888- -92 744 1 2 1- 6 1- 8 0-3 2 5 2 •9 Liversedge 1875 -77 282 1 7 6 •4 ? ? 4 5 1880-82 0 9 — 1 6 1-0 1 •5 4 2 1883- -87 224 1 6 1 7 0 •8 2 •0 1888 -92 259 0 5 0 8 0'3 0 ■8 1 2 Morley - - - 1873- -77 288 2 5 2 5 8 3 p ? 3 5 1878- -82 800 1 8 2 7 0-2 3 ■0 4 4 1883- -87 334 I 2 9 0 0-7 3 ■6 4 8 18s8- -92 341 0 7 0 8 0-4 1 •9 3 7 Ossett - - - 1873- -77 219 1 9 0 7 6 8 ? ? 3 5 1883- -87 191 0 5 0 I 4 5 0-4 1 •3 2 5 1888- -92 198 0 5 0 1 1 8 0-6 0 •7 1- 2 Ravensthorpe - 1875- -77 73 3 1 1 3 ? ? 4- 0 1878- -82 80 1 0 3 2 1 ■5 1 • 2 1883- -87 80 1 5 2 0 0-7 4 •2 2- 2 1888- -92 97 0 8 1 6 2 •0 1 • 8 Soothill, Upper - 1875-77 1883-87 1888, 1890-92 100 101 108 4 1 2 0 2 3 1 0 0 4 6 1 2 6 8 3 ? 0-2 0-6 1 1 ? •4 •6 4- 0- 1- 3 6 8 Thornhill , - 1873- 1878- 1884- 1888- -77 -82 -87 -92 147 170 155 165 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 7 1 1 3 4 1 0 8 0 7 3 ? 0-1 0-1 ? 0-8 2 1 2-1 1- 0- 3- 2- 6 5 3 7
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