The death-rate in one apartment houses : an enquiry based on the census returns of 1901 / by A. K. Chalmers.

  • Chalmers, Archibald Kerr.
Date:
1903
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Credit: The death-rate in one apartment houses : an enquiry based on the census returns of 1901 / by A. K. Chalmers. 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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    that our one apartment population is similar in its age distribution to the average of the city, we shall be probably not very wide of the mark. TABLE II. GLASGOW, 1901.—DEATHS IN ONE APARTMENT HOUSES AT CERTAIN PERIODS OF LIFE WITH PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL DEATHS AT EACH AGE PERIOD, AND FOR COM- PARISON THE PERCENTAGE OF DEATHS AT THE SAME AGE PERIODS IN HOUSES OF OTHER SIZES EXCLUSIVE OF INSTITUTIONS, AND IN TEIE CITY AS A WHOLE. Aca Periods. Deaths in 1 Apt. Houses. Percentage of Total Deaths. 1 Apts.* 2 Apts, and up.* Whole City. Under 1, - UO93 32.1 21.S 22.9 1 and under 5, 850 25.O 16.5 ^1 bo 5 » 15. 131 CO CO 5.8 5-i 15 ». 20, 37 1.1 2.7 2-3 20 „ 25, 87 2.6 3-5 3-1 25 60, 760 22.3 30.3 29.6 60 and up, - 447 13-1 19.4 19.2 3.405 100.0 1 oo-o 100.0 * Excluding Institutions and Harbour. If we confine our attention to the deaths occurring under 5 years, the contrast which the columns present might arise from a larger proportion of children at this age among our one apartment population, or from a higher rate of mortality prevailing among them, but in either case it would be fatal 40 the contention that the excessive death-rate of the one-apartment population as a whole is to be explained by causes natural to advanced life. Moreover the figure which represents the number of deaths among infants (1093) has its significance increased by considering the the proportion which they form of the total infantile deaths occurring in the City. In the year 1901 these numbered 3,602,
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