Unhealthiness of London, and the necessity of remedial measures; : being a lecture delivered at the Western and Eastern Literary and Scientific Institutions, Leicester Square, and Hackney Road. / By Hector Gavin.

  • Hector Gavin
Date:
1847
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Credit: Unhealthiness of London, and the necessity of remedial measures; : being a lecture delivered at the Western and Eastern Literary and Scientific Institutions, Leicester Square, and Hackney Road. / By Hector Gavin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the summer quarter, ending September 30, 1846, there were 51,235 deaths registered ; whereas in the corresponding quarter of 1845, there were registered 36,800, being an increase of mortality in the quarter of 1846, of 15,227. But if the mortality had only been 33,000, as it ought to have been by the judicious application of sanitary measures, there would have been saved, in certain districts of England alone, the lives of 18,235 persons, and the sickness and disease which was unnecessarily suffered by 510,780 persons. The experience of the last quarter alarmingly proves the increased mortality which is prevalent. In the quarter ending March 31, 56,105 persons died in 117 districts; a number greater than has been registered in any corresponding quarter, and 6,035 above the corrected average. Deaths registered in the March Quarters of Nine Years. 1839. 1840. 1841. 1842. 1843. 1844. 1845. 1846. 1847. 42,410 46,376j 46,967 44,903 43,748 46,136 49,949 43,850 56,105 15,289 deaths were registered in London, during the first thirteen weeks of this year. A greater number than has been registered in any previous winter since the Registrar General commenced the weekly table. Deaths registered in the Eight first Quarters of the Eight Years. 1840. 1841. 1842. 1843. 1844. 1845. 1846. 1847. 11,989 13,930 12,626 12,504 13,471 14,528 12,376 15,289 If we take the amount of fever which is now prevalent as a guide in forming a judgment of our sanitary state, the prospect is still more alarming.
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