Report on the state of Lancaster / by Richard Owen.

  • Owen, Richard, Sir, 1804-1892.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Report on the state of Lancaster / by Richard Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Whether it was originally produced here, or imported from a distance, I was unable to ascertain ; the houses in which it first appeared being equally favourable for either supposition. From that period to the present, it has continued to rage with more or less frequency and fatality. It has, with few exceptions, been confined to the poor and labouring classes of people: but when persons in better life were at- tached, the symptoms were not less severe than with, others. The seasons or weather seemed to have little influence either in extending or retarding its progress: sometimes we had many persons labouring under the disease; at other times, it would almost totally disappear, and then break out again, generally in families, whose intercourse with others who had been sick afforded a ready conveyance for contagion. Table IX.—Lancaster Union. £. s. d. }„ • • • • }24! • • • • 1 - 5-1 • • 650 0 0 } ^ t • • • ) 38*55 • • j 104 ‘ • • • 1 7-02 • • 468 0 0 } *• • • • • } - 62-65 • • 1 55 •• • •• 2*51 • • \ } •* • • • • n .. 38-51 • • 1,352 0 0 i!_ • • • • Widows. Total Number of Widows at present chargeable, on-] account of widowhood, whose Husbands, had they been living, would now have been under 60 years | of age Total Number of Children under 16 years of age, de- pendent upon them . . .... by them Annual Cost widows Total Number of Widows at present chargeable.' whose Husbands, had they been now living, would have been 60 years of age, and upwards . Average Period of Chargeability actually experienced by them .’ Annual Cost, including their 14 Children . t Cost per Cent., in proportion to the Annual Total Cost of Paupers Average Age at death of the Husbands of these Widows Oiuuians. years of age Average period by them . Annual Cost Paupers Average Age at death of the Fathers of these Childr 1 ^ °tal Cost of idows and Orphans . . lotal Cost per Cent, of Widows and Orphans,] in proportion to the Annual Total Cost of! Paupers 13-tS 10* 5-0