Further observations on the state of population in Manchester, etc / [Anon].

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804
Date:
[1774]
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Credit: Further observations on the state of population in Manchester, etc / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tate the noxious effluvia which float in the atmofphere fa). And it appears from a variety of obfervations which I have colle&ed, that O&ober, November and December are generally very healthy, although the moft rainy months in the year. I fhall fubjoin a table which will fee this point in the cleared light, and at the fame time fliew the comparative Mortality of the different feafons at Middleton, Bowden, Chowbent, Dilhley, Middlewich, Richmond, and Manchefter. A TABLE shewing the COMPARATIVE MORTALITY of the different seasons of the YEAR. Middleton from 1663 to 1673. Ten years. Middleton from 1763 to 1773. Ten years. Bowden from 1663 to 1673. Ten years. Bowden from 1763 to 1773. Ten years. Manciiciter from 1766 to 1774 *• Eight years. January 1 February > March J 117. 265. 179. 259. 1538- April 1 May > June j 99. . 291. 139- 3°°. 1366. I ul7 7 Auguft > September j 79- 215. 114. 209. 957- October 1 November > December J 72. 222. 127. 207. 1339* January 1 February March j Chowbent from 1767 to 1773. Six years. Difhley from 1763 to 1773. Ten years. Middlewich from 1768 to 1773. Five years. Richmond from 1764 to 1774. Ten years. Total. 7'i • 64. 67. 170. 2730. April 1 May > June 3 37- 78. 55- 156. 2521. July I Auguft > September j 28. 51- 59- 172. 1884. October 1 November > December j 33- 43- 69. H4- 2256. (a) Vid. Sir John Pringle on the Difeafes of the Army, p. 5. Ed. 4. * This account is taken from the regifter of the collegiate or parifh church only. There