Results of sanitary improvement : illustrated by the operation of the metropolitan societies for improving the dwellings of the industrious classes, the working of the Common Lodging-Houses Act, etc. / by Southwood Smith.

  • Thomas Southwood Smith
Date:
1854
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Credit: Results of sanitary improvement : illustrated by the operation of the metropolitan societies for improving the dwellings of the industrious classes, the working of the Common Lodging-Houses Act, etc. / by Southwood Smith. 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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    Tables of Comparative Mortality. Metropolitan Buildings they were 5, being an excess of infant mortality in the Potteries, of 37. In the Potteries, the proportion of deaths per cent, to the population was 4 ’03, or 40 in the 1000 ; in the Metropolitan Buildings it was ‘74, or 7 in the 1000, being an excess in the Potteries of 33 in the 1000. In the Potteries, the proportion of deaths per cent., under ten years of age to the population under ten years of age, was 10’9, or 109 in the 1000 ; in the Metropolitan Buildings it was 1 • 0, or 10 in the 1000, being an excess in the Potteries, of 99 in the 1000. In the Pot- teries, the proportion per cent., of deaths from zymotic diseases, under ten years of age, to the population, was 5'2, or 52 in the 1000; in the Metropolitan Buildings it was ’82, or 8 in the 1000, being an excess in the Potteries, of 44 in the 1000. These results are presented under one view in the following tables;— COIIPAEATIVE VITAL STATISTICS. No. I. WITH RESPECT TO PERSONS OF ALL AGES. LOCALITIES ] COMPARED. Population. Mortality, Proportion of deaths to 1000 living. Actual propor- tion. Number in excess of M. B. Metropolitan Buildings • • 1,343 10 7 Whole of London «• • • 1 2,420,619 54,213 22 15 Potteries, Kensington • • 1,263 51 40 33 No. II. WITH RESPECT TO CHILDREN UNDER TEN YEARS OP AGE. Mortality. Proportion of deaths to lOOO living. LOCALITIES All Causes. Zymotic diseases. Population Zymotic Diseases, COMPARED. All causes. Actual Number Actual Number proper- inoxccss propor- inoxccss tion. of M. B. tion. of M. B. Metropolitan Buildings • • Whole of Lon- 1 490 } 547,806 6 24,661 4 10 — 8 - doll . . . . Potteries, Keii- 8,933 46 .36 16 8 1 384 42 sington 20 109 99 52 44 It will bo seen from Table No. I. that the deaths from all causes in the whole of London Avere, in proportion to the popula-