Report of the joint special committee on the census of Boston, May, 1855 : including the report of the Censors, with analytical and sanitary observations / by Josiah Curtis.
- Boston City Council
- Date:
- 1856
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the joint special committee on the census of Boston, May, 1855 : including the report of the Censors, with analytical and sanitary observations / by Josiah Curtis. 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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![The City Registrar’s Report for 1854, does not give exactly the same distinctions, but it is sufficiently de- finite for us to learn that of the 4,441 deaths in that year, as nearly as could be ascertained, 1,726 were of American, and 2,706 of foreign origin, 9 being in the list of unknown. This shows a decrease of mortality among the American, and a large increase among the foreign, over that of 1853. The aggregate number of deaths classed as among citizens of American origin, during the five years, was 8,359, while the aggregate number from those of foreign origin, was 11,508, there being 116 placed as of unknown origin. This gives an annual average of 1,672 American, and 2,302 foreign, which shows the average mortality since 1850, to have been to the average population of each class, as fol- lows: American, 2.211 per cent.; Foreign, 3.09 per cent., or in other words, in every 10,000 Americans in Boston, 22] have died annually since 1850, and of every 10,000 of foreign origin in Boston, 309 have died annually since 1850, which is very nearly in the pro- portion of 10 to 14, as the ratio between the actual mortality of the two classes of our citizens. Of the foreign population we can eliminate only the Irish and German, by the schedule used in taking the Census. In the record of deaths, those from the various coun- tries in the north of Europe are, in many instances, classed with the natives of Germany. The mortuary records as published in the City Regis- trar s Reports, do not designate the number of deaths among the Irish, except in the year 1854, which was then 2,461. Now, by the Census of June, 1855, that class of our citizens numbered 68,611, which gives the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22354761_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
