Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49.
- General Register Office Northern Ireland
- Date:
- 1852
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report on the mortality of cholera in England, 1848-49. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![21st that the epidemic began to be fatal, when it appeared among the labouring population at Aberdylais, Blaen Louddan. Throughout June the epidemic prevailed, and 80 persons died during the month. After the first week of July a rapid in- crease of mortality occurred; on July 17th as many as 18 persons died, and on several days it was fatal to 16 persons daily ; during the month 296 deaths took place. The mortality continued high during the first three weeks of August, and the deaths in the month amounted to 260 ; the deaths declined to 84 in September, and to 10 in October. The last fatal attack took place on November 10th, when a labourer, aged 47, died after an illness of 13 hours, at Lonlase, Llansamlet Higher. During the year 1849 cholera was fatal in Neath to 738 persons (353 males; 385 females), being at the rate of 169 deaths to every 10000 persons living. Diarrhoea destroyed 61 lives (28 males; 33 females), being at the rate of 14 deaths to every 10000 persons living. A table is given in another part of the Report showing the progress of the epidemic during each day of its prevalence in the districts of Cardiff, Merthyr Tydfil, and Neath. THE WOLVERHAMPTON CHOLERA FIELD. At the southern extremity of Staffordshire, on a space 12 miles square, 3275 persons died of cholera and of diarrhoea. The mortality from cholera was in the district of Wolverhampton 137, Walsall 54, West Bromwich 48, Dudley 48, Stourbridge ex- tending into Worcestershire, 65 in 10000. It is the Midland coal-field. The Potteries to the north, comprising Wolstanton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Newcastle-under-Lyme, where the mortality was considerable, and Nantwich in Cheshire, Shrewsbury, and Bridgenorth to the west, Coventry to the east, may be considered out-lying districts, connected more or less with this field, which is in direct communication with Liverpool and Manchester. The field is near the centre of England; and it is worthy of remark, that the outbreak of the great epidemic may be set down so late as July for Wolverhampton, August for the other central districts. The districts immediately surrounding those infected escaped unscathed : thus the mortality in 10000 was only 5 in Penkridge, 2 in Lichfield, 2 in Tamworth, 2 in Burton-on-Trent, 1 in Cheadle, 1 in Leek, 4 in Stone, 1 in Stafford. In Uttoxeter, with 14932 inhabitants, no death from cholera, and only 1 from diarrhoea occurred. Warwickshire, with the ex- ception of Coventry and Foleshill in its vicinity, suffered as little as the exempted districts of Staffordshire ; the mortality from diarrhoea in Birmingham and Aston was however considerable. In Atherstone and Solihull there was no death from cholera; in Meriden 1, Nuneaton 2, Rugby 1, Stratford-on-Avon 2, Alcester 1, Shipton- on-Stour 1, Southam 1. Rutlandshire and Leicestershire enjoyed an extraordinary immunity: in Melton Mowbray there was no death from cholera, only 8 from diarrhoea; in Leicester 2 from cholera, 75 from diarrhoea. Six of the districts of Lincolnshire scarcely suffered at all; the deaths ranged only from 1 to 3 in 10000. Gainsborough, on the Trent, flowing into the Humber, was visited heavily; the deaths from cholera were 246, diarrhoea 63 ; the mortality from cholera was 91 in 10000. Caistor lies south of the Humber over against Hull, and the mortality was 11 ; in Glandford Brigg 9 in 10000. In Lincoln the mortality was only 2 from cholera, 12 from diarrhoea in 10000. Nottinghamshire escaped with few deaths; the mortality from cholera was in East Retford 10, Newark 10, Bingham 9, Basford 7, Radford 3, Nottingham 3 in 10000. In Nottingham the mortality was 18, in Radford 17 in 10000 from diarrhoea. In the district of Southwell, including part of Sherwood Forest, no death Irom cholera occurred among the 25014 inhabitants. Derbyshire suffered still less than Nottinghamshire; the mortality in the district of Derby was 5 in 10000 from cholera, 11 from diarrhoea. In the rest of the county the mortality was inconsiderable. THE LIVERPOOL CHOLERA FIELD.] The epidemic fixed itself firmly in Liverpool as early as March, and around this centre infested several of the districts of Cheshire and Lancashire; the mortality diminishing in the distance. Thus the mortality in iooco was 167 in Liverpool, 82 in West Derby, 40 in Prescot, 22 in Ormskirk, 5 in Wigan, 19 in Warrington, d](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21308251_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
