Facts about health worth recollecting.

  • Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.
Date:
[1854]
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Credit: Facts about health worth recollecting. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 j2oJn Faisley while the district of Charleston was freed from the pestilence in -a few days, after an active system of visitation had been introduced, the . disease continued in other districts, where the system was not introduced. ^^n'Manchestei-, “ within a few days after the visitation was in activity, the ' developed’cholera almost entirely disappeared, and the influence of the epidemic was confined to the production of diarrhoea.” 4 The Jews in London were comparatively free from attacks; which was ’ attributed to the following causes:—they avoid over-crowding and drunkenness; they are particular in the food they eat; they generally observe the Sabbath; they are promptly relieved, in case of need, by their brethren, and so avoid extreme destitution; and, at the Passover, their houses are cleaned or lime-whited. Yj That many diseases may be prevented by due attention to the state of the dwellings, is shown by the following facts: 1. In Manchester it was found in certain districts, that where cholera attacked classes 6f houses having above nine inhabitants each, one case in 100 of the population was fatal; where the number of inhabitants was seven it was fatal in one case in 130; where the number was six, it was fatal in one case in 170; but where the number of inhabitants was about five, it was fatal only in one case in 600. 2. In a part of Kensington parish called the “ Potteries,” which is exceedingly defective in sanitary arrangements, out of a population of 1,263, there were, in lS5'3,Jifti/-one deaths; while in the “ Metropolitan Buildings” (an improved class of dwellings for working people), which coiltain 1,343 persons—a larger number—there were only ten deaths. 3 In London, generally, the average deaths from typhus, and other forms of continued fever, in respect to deaths from pther causes, are about twelve in every hundred; but there has been no case in the improved dwellings during the four years they have been opened; and during the prevalence of cholera in 1848-49, although it was fatal in many cases in the im- mediate neighbourhood, the improved dwellings were entirely free from its attacks. VII.—The great sacrifice of infant life, from improper treatment, appears in the fact, that out of 10,386 deaths, at all ages, in Manchester and Salford (in 1846), 5,129 were of children under three years of age, or onh half; and that infant life, ^ now sacrificed, might be preserved by ordinary care, is shown by the fact that in I the Kensington Potteries, where there were 384 children, forty-two died in 1863; 1 but in the Metropolitan Improved Buildings, where there were 490 ohildren— i a larger number—only five deaths occurredi Price Is. ‘M.per Smdred, or Is. to Snhscribers, Sold at the Offices of the Association, No. 33, Pall Mall, King-street, Manchester. And by Knight & Co., 00, Fleet-street, London; where also may be obtained— . . -n • Tract No. 1. “ What is Man, In respect to his Physical ConsUtution i ifncQ 2s. 6d. per hundred ; or, 2s. to Subscribers. . „ Tract No. 2. “ Hints to Working People about the Houses they Live m. Price 3s. per hundred; or, 2s. 6d. to Subscribers. Tract No. 3. “Facts about Health worth BecollectingP Price Is. 3d. per hundred; or, 1s. to Subscribers. • „ n • Tract No. 4. “Hints to Working People about Personal Cleanliness. Irice 2s. 6d. per hundred; or, 2s. to Subscribers. . , , Tract No. 6. “ Hints to Working People about Clothing.’ Price 2s. Od. per hundred; or, 2s. to Subscribers. Other Tracts are in course of preparation. PowLsoN & Sons, Printers, Bow-street, John Dalton-strcet, Manchester.