Practical sanitation : a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others interested in sanitation / by George Reid ; with an appendix on sanitary law by Herbert Manley.

Date:: 1899

Credit: Practical sanitation : a handbook for sanitary inspectors and others interested in sanitation / by George Reid ; with an appendix on sanitary law by Herbert Manley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$in them by reason of their nature, but, on the other hand, there are some trades which need not cause injury, provided they are carried on under conditions less unfavourable to health than is frequently the case. The two following tables give the mortality in Glasgow in 1885 from all causes, as well as from certain classes of disease that are especially liable to be influenced, both as regards pre- valence and fatality, by insanitary surroundings. Of course the conditions of life in other respects of the occupants of small, as compared with large houses, are not comparable, but apart from this, there can be no doubt that cleanliness of the atmosphere, as affected by density of population, is an all-important factor in the result:— Glasgow, 1885. Incidence of Annual Death-rate per 100,000 on Population INHABITING HOUSES OF— 1 and 2 Rooms. 3 and 4 Rooms. 5 Rooms. All Diseases, .... 2,650 1,950 1,100 Zymotic Diseases, . . . 478 246 114 Lung Diseases, 985 6S9 328 Diseases of Nutrition in Chil- \ dren under 5 years, . . / 480 231 91 Glasgow, 1885. Overcrowding and Death in a Group of Ten Families of Fifty Persons in Houses of— 1 and 2 Rooms. 3 and 4 Rooms. 5 Rooms. One Person dies in every 1 Yrs. Mths. Yrs. Mths. Yrs. Mths. All Diseases, .... 0 9 1 0 1 10 Zymotic Diseases, . 4 2 8 1 17 6 Lung Diseases, 2 0 2 10 6 1 Diseases of Nutrition in Chil-1 dren under 5 years, . . ] 4 2 8 6 22 2$