On the physical causes of the high rate of mortality in Liverpool : read before the Literary and Philosophical Society, in February and March, 1843 / by W.H. Duncan.

  • William Henry Duncan
Date:
1843
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Credit: On the physical causes of the high rate of mortality in Liverpool : read before the Literary and Philosophical Society, in February and March, 1843 / by W.H. Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and tvet Cellars is greatest, and least, in the same districts, respectively, where fever reaches its maximum and mini- mum; and that the three most unhealthy districts generally, are the most unfavourably, while the three comparatively healthy districts are the most favourably, situated in this respect; the proportion of damp and wet cellars in the former being 44? per cent., and in the latter 28| per cent, of the whole. Other diseases are probably also more prevalent in cellars, for the total number of Dispensary patients re- siding underground is certainly much larger than the cellar proportion of the working classes should give ; but, that fever especially infests these abodes, is shewn by the fact (so far as a few hundred cases can be trusted to for the purpose) that while of every 100 Dispensary patients of all descriptions attended by Mr. Higginson and by myself, 31*22 per cent, resided in cellars, there were 36*22 in cellars out of every 100 cases of Fever. TABLE XIII. WARDS. Per centage of Damp Cellars. Inhabitants per Cellar. Total Fever. Total Deaths. Vauxhall ^ Saint Paul’s 43-83 3-03 1 in 34-06 1 in 27-02 Exchange ] Castle Street Saint Peter’s 59-34 3-18 32-81 29-60 Pitt Street 53-37 3-87 56-51 31-36 Great George Saint Anne’s ' Lime Street 34-47 2-99 109-30 31*51 Scotland 35-44 3-25 77-02 31-74 Rodney Street ... .■ Abercromby 19-10 3-36 237-18 41-62 The small ratio of inhabitants per cellar in St. Anne’s and Lime Street Wards will be noticed as another power in counteraction to the influence of their comparatively numerous court population. D
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