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.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![The mortality is thus a shade less among females than it is among males; but the difference is much less than it is from all other fatal diseases in ordinary years ; when the total deaths among males is invariably greater than the deaths among females. Thus in the year 1848 the deaths of males from all causes amounted to 202,949, °f females to 196,851. And in the seven years 1838-44 the annual rate of mortality among males was 2'2]0, females 2'ic>4 per cent. In the Middlesex districts of London 3388 males, and 3612 females, died of cholera; in the Surrey districts the discrepancy was much greater, for 2814 males and 3509 females died of the disease. In many districts of the kingdom the mortality was much more fatal to males than to females. In some districts the disease was most fatal to females. Thus the deaths in Dartford (Kent) were males 68, females 49; and the deaths of males exceeded the deaths of females in other districts on the river and coasts of that county. In Portsea and Alverstoke 343 males and 351 females died of cholera; in Yarmouth 53 males and 34 females; Norwich n males and 27 females; Salis- bury 88 males, and 77 females; Plymouth, Plympton St. Mary, East Sionehouse, and StokeDamerel, 907 males and 966 females; Bedminster, Bristol, and Clifton, 695 males and 740 females. In Gloucester, as well as in Wheatenhurst, Stroud, and Tewkesbury, the number of males that died exceeded the females in the proportion of 1331096. The same or a greater discrepancy occurred at Madeley and Shrews- bury, where 106 males and 71 females died. Upon the other hand, 94 males and 147 females died of cholera at Newcastle-under- Lyme. In Stoke-upon-Trent, Wolverhamp- ton, West Bromwich, and Dudley, the deaths of males considerably exceeded the deaths of females in number. In Boston, Lincolnshire, 25 males and 10 females died of cholera; in Caistor 24 males and 5 females ; in Gainsborough no males and 136 females. In Liverpool, Manchester, and the adjacent districts, the deaths of females exceeded the deaths of males in number. 1895 males and 2278 females died from cholera in Liver- pool. The mortality was at the rate of 154 to 10000 in males, and 180 to 10000 in females; about one-fifth greater therefore in the female than in the male sex. In Knaresborough 33 males and 20 females; Huddersfield 33 males and 19 females died of cholera; in Leeds and Hunslet, on the other hand, 1082 males and 1241 females died of the epidemic. In Wakefield 145 males, 96 females; Rotherham 20 males, 10 females; Thorne 42 males and 28 females; Pocklington, Howden, and Beverley, near Hull, 76 males, 39 females; in Hull and Sculcoates 868 males, 966 females — the deaths of the latter being 98 in excess. In Tynemouth and South Shields, Sunderland and Chester- le-Street, the deaths of females were in excess ; in Newcastle-upon-Tyne nearly equal. In Cockermouth and Whitehaven the deaths of males were 152, females 209. In the Welsh districts—Abergavenny, Pontypool, Cardiff, and Merthyr Tydfil—the deaths of males were in excess. It is worthy of remark, that at the beginning of the epidemic the deaths of males exceeded the deaths of females very considerably ; the numbers in the months of October, November, and December, 1848, were, males 61 2, females 493 ; or in the pro- portion of 100 to 80. In the prior nine months of that year before the great epidemic had set in, the deaths of males in England ascribed to cholera were 445, of females 384; numbers in the proportion of 100 and 86. As a genera! rule, when the mortality from cholera attained a very high rate, the number of deaths among females exceeded the deaths among males. In London a remarkable change was observed in the proportion of the sexes affected in the course of the epidemic. In four weeks of October 1848 the deaths of 80 males and of 42 females by cholera were registered ; in the thirteen last weeks of the year the deaths of 258 males and 210 females were reuistered ; and there was an excess of males at all ages, but particularly in the ten years of age 15-25. In the quarter ending March 1849, the deaths of males amounted to 250, of females to 266: at the age of 25 and upwards the excess of deaths among females was considerable. In June, at the com- mencement of the t/real outbreak, the males again furnished the most numerous victims. At the close, of July the females died in greater numbers than males, and continued to do so to the end. In the week that the mortality was highest the deaths of 895 males and of 1131 females were returned. In the September quarter the deaths of males](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21308251_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
