City of York : report on the state of York, in reply to questions circulated by the Health of Towns Commission / By T. Laycock, M.D., Physician to the York Dispensary.
- Thomas Laycock
- Date:
- [1844]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: City of York : report on the state of York, in reply to questions circulated by the Health of Towns Commission / By T. Laycock, M.D., Physician to the York Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![City of York. Table 12.—Return from the Board of Guardians of the York Union. Report on its Sanatory State, by T. Laycock, M.D. Number of Husbands or Fathers who have died below 60 Years of Age. Average Age of thtf Husband or Father at Death. Average Age of Period of Dependence. Total Amount of Relief given since the commencement of the Relief. Total number of persons at present on the out-1 door or in-door relief list, relieved on account) 176 Years. 43 I Average period of dependence actu- > Not known. of claims for relief arising from widowhood . j Total number of children belonging to widows] in receipt of parochial relief j • , l ally experienced f Total number of children relieved whose fathers! and mothers are dead . f • • • • • • • * Table 13. Weekly Cost. Annual Charge. 1. Total amount of relief given to persons at present dependent on] parochial relief j Widows .... 3031 Children of widows . 246 j Orphans .... 41 £. s. d. 188 0 0 59 4 11 28 6 9 £. s. d. 3080 15 8 1474 11 0 •• 4555 6 8 Table 14. Year ended Lady-day, 1839. Year ended Lady-day, 1840. Year ended Lady-day, 1841. Cases. Money expended. Cases. Money expended. Cases. Money expended. 1. Total number of cases which have] £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. been attended by the medical officers of the Union J 2. Total number of cases in which sup-] 606 241 6 0 553 172 10 0 513 171 0 0 port has been give.) on account of) sickness during tne iast three years] 122 • • 229 • • 187 •• 3. Number of cases .'n .mieh coffins] have been given J 4. Total number of cases in which the] 4 2 5 6 7 5 6 6 6 3 2 6 whole expense of interment has been) provided at the public charge . . J 45 63 0 0 51 54 15 1 45 55 14 9 The total annual charge on the Union for the year ending March, 1843, being 11,634/., the total average annual expense of cases of widowhood and orphanage upon the Union is nearly 30 per cent, of the total annual expenditure. This is, of course, but a very small proportion of the cost to the community of deficient sanatory arrangements. If the distress and destitution experienced by widows and orphans in private could be accurately esti- mated, the amount would be incredibly great. Medical advice is given gratuitously to a great extent by the medical profession generally, and also by the City Dispensary and County Plospital. The latter takes in patients from any part of the county : the Medical Staff prescribe also for the out-patients of the charity, the greater part of whom reside in York. The advantages of the dispen- sary are confined almost entirely to the sick poor of the city ; those unable to attend at the institution are visited at their homes. There is also a small district dispensary : it is not, however, a public institution. The following is the average annual expenditure and number of patients of the two medical charities:— Table 15. Average Annual Number of Patients for Five Years. Average Annual Expenditure of Five Years. £. York County Hospital . 974 1496 York City Dispensary . . . 2119 574 York having had for many centuries a municipal government, and as a commercial and military locality having partaken in all the social changes of the kingdom from time](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28748475_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
