An essay on the best modes of representing accurately, by statistical returns, the pressure and progress of the causes of mortality amongst different classes of the community, and amongst the populations of different districts and countries : with additional proofs and illustrations of the doctrine advanced in the Sanatory Report, that epidemic diseases increase the pressure of population / by Edwin Chadwick.
- Edwin Chadwick
- Date:
- [1844]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on the best modes of representing accurately, by statistical returns, the pressure and progress of the causes of mortality amongst different classes of the community, and amongst the populations of different districts and countries : with additional proofs and illustrations of the doctrine advanced in the Sanatory Report, that epidemic diseases increase the pressure of population / by Edwin Chadwick. 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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![Diitricts Class. Number of Deaths of each Class. Deaths from Epi- demic. Average Age at Death of all who die above 81. Average Age at Death, including C^dren Years’ Average premature loss of Life b; Propor- tionate Number of Deaths to Popula- tion. Excess in Number of Deaths above a Healthy standard. Adulu. Chil- dren under 10. Total. Deaths above Age of 81. Deaths of all Classes. , No. No. No. No. Y ears. Years. Years. Years. No. No. Gentry 36 9 45 3 58 47 4 . • oT Tradesmen 144 164 308 75 52 24 10 15 B” Artisans, &c. 231 353 584 149 50 19 12 20 1 in 36 367 o 3 Undescribed 21 6 27 2 54 41 8 • • 'o X ^ Paupers 155 32 137 35 60 46 2 • •. Ph o Totals and 537 564 1,101 264 • • , , • • • • An Averages. 53 26 9 13 • • « • No. of Births 969 Age of Living 27*2 Births 1 in 41 * * O O GO ^ O «.2 O c3 Gentry Tradesmen Artisans, &c. Undescribed Paupers . 63 153 498 150 234 23 150 802 75 49 86 303 1,300 225 283 14 63 271 34 56 65 47 51 57 57 47 23 19 37 46 15 11 5 5 Is) .!) 1 in 38 732 ^ ft o Totals and 1,098 1,099 2,197 438 Ai A.T6rdg6S t 54 26 8 13 • • • • No. of Births 3,058 Age of Living 26 Births 1 in 27 a to o o> g«5 ^ § ^•3 O O At Gentry 32 12 44 3 63 43 • Tradesmen 247 244 491 84 48 23 14 16 Artisans, &c. 213 270 483 94 50 22 12 17 1 in 50 403 Undescribed 77 29 106 15 58 39 4 • • Paupers . Totals and 569 555 1,124 196 Averages. 51 25 11 14 • • • • No. of Births 1,210 Age of Living 27’7 Births 1 in 46 Ih ^ S » rC .S «T CO S 1 § Gentry . Tradesmen Artisans, &c. U ndescribed Paupers . 37 82 458 38 97 14 102 581 24 19 51 184 1039 62 116 9 47 264 9 17 55 46 48 56 57 42 20 21 49 46 7 16 14 6 5 • • 1 19 18l ■ • 1 • • 1 1 in 39 521 « ft . o Totals and 712 740 1,452 346 iri §;A Averages • 50 25 12 14 • • , , No. of] Births 1,730 Age 0 ' Living 26 11 Births 1 in 33 and their habitations, and 1 have always observed that sickness prevails much more in places where sewers and drains are bad than in other parts where the inhabitants are equally poor, but have more wholesumo houses to live in. Any suggestion here as to remedy may, probably, be considered out of place, but having had much experience as a Commissioner of Pavements, os well os in several offices of local manage- ment duritm the last 25 years, and having ^ven much attention to the subjeet (an evil which, in my opinion, aflects the metropolis to an extent little imagined), I have no doubt as to tlie means of remedy, and improvement in the loeal administration being perfectly easy and effectual,” In another classification he arranges, IVom descriptions of streets with nearly equal population, the highest in each class; the relative proportions, and average ages of deaths, are ascertained to be as follows:— Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Population. Deaths. 1432 97 1465 119 1448 157 1386 200 Average Age of Death. 3o 32 25 21 The above statement proves that, out of a population of 1432 occupying the best houses, 95 deaths oc- curred within five years, 29 of uhich at and under five years of age; and that out of a population of 1336, occupying the worst houses, the whole numlter of deaths arc 189, 104 of which at and under five years of age.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22396214_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
