The Hastings and St. Leonards pamphlet : being abstracts of reports of the London and local press on the new drainage system of Hastings and St. Leonards : also scientific and statistical information in reference to the water supply, health and death-rate, and climate of the borough of Hastings / by John Charles Savery.
- Savery, John Charles.
- Date:
- 1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Hastings and St. Leonards pamphlet : being abstracts of reports of the London and local press on the new drainage system of Hastings and St. Leonards : also scientific and statistical information in reference to the water supply, health and death-rate, and climate of the borough of Hastings / by John Charles Savery. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![be judged of by the different prevalence of the disease in districts formed by sands and clays in different proportions. Taking those districts where the majority of the people live in the Wealden area, and arranging them in the order of their consumptive mortality, the table shows the per-centage of people living on sandy soil and clay in each. Gravels over Weald Clay, being of intermediate importance, have been divided (in making the last columns) as if they were half sand and half clay. ■1(1 ) . fK' : IIH/-' ;V.iJ]; r.ii.i - Districts the majority of whose population live on Weald Country. Order of Di^itrict among the Fifty-eight Districts, In order of Phthisis Mortality. Per-oentiige of Population resident on Total on /■ HiRher Beds, mostly Lower Greensand. Weald Clay. Hastings Bods. Sands and Half Gravels over Weald Clay. Clays andllaU Gravels on Weald Clay. Sands of. Clays of. With Gravel. With- out. Sands of. Clays of. 2. ! Hastings 95 5 95 5 15. Cranbrook 1 e 82 9 82 18 22. East Grinstead... 12 82 6 82 IS 23. r Tunbridge 1 24 7 64 4 76 24 25. [ Uckfield 1 87 17 87 17 28. Hanibledon ... 49 . 20 31 59 41 29. Battle 80 20 80 20 ,40. . ■Ryo .; 4 • . 79 17 79 21 42. Maidstone 43 1 45 11 66 24 43. [Cuckfleld 21 1 25 48 5 69 31 46. Hailsham 34 61 4 61 38 47. ; Ticelmrst 67 33 67 33 51. Tontcrden 29 42 29 42 58 58.. Horsham 56 44 44 56 Fetworth 30 70 30 70 The following general conclusions then result from the present inquiry:— (1.) Within the counties of Surrey, Kent, and Sussex there is, broadly speaking, less phthisis among populations living on pervious soils than among populations living on impervious soils..](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21472750_0050.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
