First report of the commissioners : appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence.
- Great Britain. Metropolitan Sanitary Commission
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: First report of the commissioners : appointed to inquire whether any and what special means may be requisite for the improvement of the health of the metropolis, with minutes of evidence. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Though cases of lever were always present in certain localities in the metropolis, yet several years commonly intervened between one epidemic season or year and another; but fever assuming a severer character and spreading more extensively than usual in J 838, fever has prevailed as an epidemic ever since. The admis- sions into the London Fever Hospital since April have exceeded by several hundreds those of any corresponding period; the hospital having been constantly full, and many applicants having been refused admission for want of room. Taiji.k II.- -Dkatiis from Typhus in London in each Week, and the Averages for each Quarter of the Years 1S45, 1816, and part of 1817. Weeks Deaths from Typhus. Weeks ending Saturday. Deaths from Typhus. Saturday. 18- 15 IS16 1847* 1815 1846 18 IT* 1st week 39 41] 49 28 th week 18 281 521 2nd ,, 27 37! 39 29th ,, 18 29 64 3rd ,, 33 34 40 30th ,, 29 36 57 ■ > 4th ,, 23 35 28 31st , , 17 25 54 5th ,, 32 28 32 32nd ,, 18 23 55 6th ,, 21 37 28 33rd ,, 19 >21 37 >31 70 S»66 7th ,, 25 >28 21>32 26 >34 34th ,, 22 26 62 8th ,, 30 22 32 35th ,, 22 37 74 9th ,, 18 27 41 36th ,, 17 26 77 10th ,, 35 31 28 37th ., 23 40 81 mil ,, 21 29 32 38th ,, 29 34 111 12th ,, 21 26 33 39th ,, 27. 34j 77j 13lh ,, 31 36 J 34J 40th ,, 23 3S1 791 14th ,, 191 281 181 list ,, 19 41 79 1 loth ,, 26 33 43 42nd ,, 22 45 93 >80 T8 |80 16th ,, 23 36 29 43rd ,, 33 61 17th ,, 23 23 41 4 4th ,, 28 55 73 1 18th ,, 26 23 40 45th ,, 31 47 80J 19th ., 22 15 34! 46th ,, 31 >27 4S>48 20th ,, 20 >21 25 •28 52 .44 47(h ,, 29 58 21st ,, 27 20 [ 54 48th ,, 32 42 22nd ,, 17 28 52 49th , , 20 48 23rd ,, 28 32 51 50th ,, 28 59 21th ,, 29 38! 44 51st ,. 34 34 25 th ,, 19 33 52 52nd ,, 28j 43J 26th ,, 29 j 30J 58j . 27th ,, 14 28 61 Total . 1301 1796 • Weekly average derived from Deaths of 1812-3-1-5 and 6, and corrected! „- for increase of Population to middle of 1846 J * The deaths in the district of Levisham aud sub-district of Hampstead adc: the first time in 1847. . to metropolis lor The steadily increasing prevalence of fever in the metropolis is further shown by the Registrar-General's return of the weekly deaths from typhus during the last three years. From this Table (see Table II.) it appears that the weekly deaths from typhus in 1846 very generally and greatly preponderated over those in 1845, being in several weeks nearly double, and in some few more than double : that the deaths in 1847* were still more in excess of those * Though the districts of Lewisham and Hampstead are included for the first time this year, the deaths from fever in these districts are too few to affect the comparison.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21011527_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
