On the prevention and treatment of the Sheffield grinders' disease / by J.C. Hall.

  • John Charles Hall
Date:
1857
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Credit: On the prevention and treatment of the Sheffield grinders' disease / by J.C. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    Table IV.—Average age at death of grinders at the following wheels. Name of wheel. Eeturn of deaths since the year Average age at death. Messrs. J. Eodgers and Sons 183G 42 1850 40 1845 40 Old Park Wheel 1844 41 Suffolk Works 1845 •38i In the deaths at the Union wheel, there is a return of the death of a grinder aged 70, who had not worked at his trade for some years. Excluding this man, the average age at death would of course be much less. In the deaths at the Soho wheel, I find returned a fork grinder aged 48. This man had not worked regularly at his trade; he had been the chapel keeper at one of the dissenting places of worship in Sheffield many years, and had not been much at the wheel. There is also the return of a fender grinder (wet) aged 64 ; he came from the country, and had not worked very hard at his trade. Excluding this man from the list of deaths at this wheel, the average age at death since 1845 has only been 38. At the Suffolk Works wheel, which is a well constructed one, and the property of Messrs. Turner and Co., the ages at death since 1845 have only averaged 38 years and 6 months: the ages at death were 35, 46, 47, 49, 27, 01, 35, 41, 27, 23, 48, 50, 4], 22, and 35 years. The man who died at the age of 61 was a table blade grinder (wet) ; he had worked at a water wheel in the country many years of his life, and had only been a very short time at the Suffolk Works wheel. In taking into consideration the ages at which these men have died, it must be borne in mind that some of them have probably perished from other diseases, as well as from the one to which grinders are so liable. Still, on looking at these re- turns, at the low average age of the men at the time of death,
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