The operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts among the troops in the United Kingdom, and men of the Royal Navy on the home station : from their introduction in 1864 to their ultimate repeal in 1884 / by Robert Lawson.
- Lawson, Robert
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The operation of the Contagious Diseases Acts among the troops in the United Kingdom, and men of the Royal Navy on the home station : from their introduction in 1864 to their ultimate repeal in 1884 / by Robert Lawson. 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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![Table VII.—Ciyil Population. Showing the Mean Population, and Deaths prom Syphilis (both Sexes and all Ages) in Civil Life, in England and Wales in the Successive Quinquenniads from 1860 to 1889, with their Ratios in i,ooo,ooo Living; also their Distribution in the Croups of the Registrar-General1 s Division, specified in Tables for the corresponding Periods. [The population for the middle year of each quinquenniad has been taken as the mean for the period, and 000’s are omitted.] Periods. Middle Year of each Period. England and Wales. I Division. II and V Divisions. Population. [000’s omitted.] Deaths. Ratios per 1,000,000. Population [OOO’s omitted.] Deaths. Ratios per 1,000,000. Population. [OOO’s omitted.] Deaths. Ratios per 1,000,000. 1860-64 1862 20,371, 1,285 63 2,857, 317 111 3,727, 221 59 ’65-69 ’67 21,678, 1,750 80 3,078, 442 r44 3,907, 268 68 ’70-74 ’72 23,096, 1,854 80 3,319, 423 127 4,084, 252 62 ’75-79 ’77 24,700, 2,111 85 3,595, 462 128 4,231, 255 60 ’80-84 ’82 26,416, 2,216 84 3,893, 495 127 4,385, 242 55 ’85-89 ’87 28,247, 2,094 74 4,215, 472 112 4,546, 250 55 Middle III, IV, and VI Divisions. VII and XI Divisions. VIII, IX, and X Divisions. Year Periods. Population. Ratios Population. Ratios Population. Ratios (000’s Deaths. per [OOO’s Deaths. per [OOO’s Deaths. per Period. omitted.] 1,000,000. omitted.] 1,000,000. omitted.] 1,000,000. 1860-64 1862 4.936, 241 49 2,629, 94 36 6,230, 411 66 ’65-69 ’67 5,186, 347 67. 2,74D 119 44 6,766, 575 85 ’70-74 ’72 5,452, 394 72 2,874, 141 49 7,364, 644 88 ’75-79 ’77 5.742, 445 77 3,064, 177 58 8,062, 780 97 ’80-84 ’82 6,048, 453 75 3,267, 184 56 8,791, 841 96 ’85-89 ’87 6,376, 387 6l 3,447, 179 51 9,632, 804 83 Note.—Details comjjiled and computed from data in registrar-general’s returns. Discussion on Inspector-General Lawson’s Paper. Dr. Nevins said that the diagram which Dr. Lawson had so admir- ably drawn excited his envy. His own diagram was rough in comparison, but it would be found that their figures, practically speaking, were the same. He himself began with 1860, because then the annual reports of the army were first published regularly, and the amount of disease was so great that a commission was appointed by Lord Herbert, Secretary for War, which investigated the matter with the greatest care, and made recommendations with respect to sanitary arrangements of barracks and healthy occupa- tions for the men, such as libraries, and so on, cricket and football, &c., to improve their condition. These recommendations began to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22305178_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
