Statistics of fever and small-pox in Glasgow. Read to the Statistical Society of Glasgow, April 28, 1837 / [Robert Cowan].
- Robert Cowan
- Date:
- 1837
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistics of fever and small-pox in Glasgow. Read to the Statistical Society of Glasgow, April 28, 1837 / [Robert Cowan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ber of Irish resident in Glasgow at 60,000, and ascribes the preva- lence, and what he deems the peculiarities of our Fever, to the number of Irish resident in Glasgow.* The author of the article “ Vital Statistics,” in M‘Culloch’s Statistics of the British Empire, vol. ii. p. 572, makes the following remarks:—“ The increasing mortality in Glasgow is no doubt in part due to the accession of Irish population, who amounted, in 1831, to more than 1-6th of the inhabitants. The poor Irish, we strongly suspect, are keeping up, if they be not introducing, the Fevers of their wretched country in the heart of the British cities. This is confirmed in the case of Glasgow, by the ages at which the mortality is augmented, and by a report of the Glasgow Infirmary before us, from which it appears that, in the year 1835, out of 3260 patients treated, 1258 had Fevers, and of these 125 died.” This statement will be proved to be incorrect while adverting, at the: close of this essay, to the influence which Fever has had in augmenting the mortality of Glasgow, especially during 1835, the year alluded to in the quotation. ; The second and third Tables exhibit the ages of the patients ad- mitted, distinguishing males from females, and the fourth gives the combined ages without reference to sex. In connexion with these Tables, the ages of persons in Glasgow, according to the Government census of 1831, is appended. 5 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 100 Under 5. to to to to to to to | to] to | to | to jand |Total. 10. 15. 20. 30. 40. 50. 60. | 70. | 80. | 90.4 100.jupw Males, .... 15422 |13127|10491| 8489] 15177] 12179] 8685] 5549 |3228)1090| 260} 26 | 1 | 93724 Females,.. 14855 | 12580 | 10720 | 12256 | 23008 | 14240} 9329] 6099 |3692)1502| 385] 32 | 4 |108702 ee | cet | eS | et | es | es | mes | mr | en | | a ee | Total,.. 30277 | 25707 | 21211 | 20745 | 38185 | 26419 | 18014 | 11648 ae at 645 | ! * Dublin Medical Journal, for September, 1836.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33285548_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
