Report upon the connection of disease with habits of intemperance : prepared for the Collective Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association / by Isambard Owen.

  • Owen, Isambard, 1850-1927.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Report upon the connection of disease with habits of intemperance : prepared for the Collective Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association / by Isambard Owen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONNECTION OF DISEASE WITH HABITS OF INTEMPERANCE. Dr. Casey has sent me the following table, exhibiting in parallel columns the comparative drinking habits of certain occupations as shown by our Report and the comparative mortality of males in the same occupations at the ages 25 to 65, as given by Dr. Wil- liam Ogle in the Supplement to the Forty-Fifth Report of the Registrar-General, p. xxv. The figures in the first column are the percentages of the less temperate in each occupation, drawn from our Tables Vi and VII and compared with the general per- centage taken as 100. Those in the second column are from Dr. Ogle’s table, the general mortality being reckoned as 100 instead of 1,000. The figures in the second column for weavers, miners, and “ driving occupations ” are rough estimates only, as these cate- gories are divided by Dr. Ogle into groups, of which the relative proportions are not ascertamable. Dr. Ogle’s figures are drawn from the returns for 1880-2. Clergymen, etc Schoolmasters Ratio of the less Temperate. 100 — average. ... 19 Comptve. Mortality at ages 25-65 (Ogle). 100 = General Mort. of Males at same ages. ... 55.6 ... 63 71.9 Weavers 69 ... 94.2 (?) Gardeners ... 71 59.9 Agricultural labourers 71 70.1 Shoemakers... 71 92.1 Tailors 76 ... 105.1 Medical men 82 112.2 Carpenters ... 98 82.0 Blacksmiths 104 97.3 Lawyers 110 84.2 Painters1 111 120.2 Masons and Bricklayers2 118 96.9 Miners 126 110.0 (?) Commercial travellers3 148 94.8 Driving trades4 146 118.4 (?) Butchers 165 117.0 Publicans5 ... 181 152.1 1 Plumbers and glaziers are included by Dr. Ogle, not by the Collective In- vestigation Committee. 2 Builders are included by Dr. Ogle, not by the Collective Investigation Com- mittee. 3 Probably many travellers retire before advanced age. 4 Grooms are included by Dr. Ogle, not by the Collective Investigation Com- mittee. ) Potmen, barmen, etc., are included by the Collective Investigation Com- mittee in its “Licensed Victualling” group. Dr. Ogle makes a separate category of “ Inn and Hotel Servants,” with a comparative mortality of 220.5.
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