National health : abridged from The health of nations : a review of the works of Sir Edwin Chadwick / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.

  • Edwin Chadwick
Date:
1890
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Credit: National health : abridged from The health of nations : a review of the works of Sir Edwin Chadwick / by Benjamin Ward Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    model dwellings for the wage-earning classes have been commonly effected under the influence of the expensive habits of construction of the higher classes of houses. In the new dwellings for the wage classes the expense incident to this mode of improvement has often been the most serious obstacle to the pro- gress of improvement. For the removal of obstacles which may be expected to stand in the way of efforts towards the attainment of better results, the following statement of the results obtained in Grreat Britain may be of service. HOUSE-KATE AND DeATH-RATE. The measure of results by the death-rate of the number of deaths per thousand is, as a single test, confessedly open to many objections. Nevertheless, rudimentary as it is, it would have sufficed, within certain limits, to have been a test for past efforts in Great Britain. Thus, in a district in Glasgow, where the death-rate in the houses occupied by the wage classes had been about 42 in 1,000, it was reduced to 28 in 1,000 in new dwellings for them on the same site. But this effort is surpassed by others in London, where, starting in some instances from as high a death-rate, the reductions effected are to 17 or 18 per 1,000. The measure of the single death-rate of the pro- portion per 1,000 of the population is, however, open to the objection that the residents of model dwellings do not all die in them, and that some die in hospitals
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