An inquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years / by Robert Watt.

  • Watt, Robert, 1774-1819.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An inquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years / by Robert Watt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to 1262, while the whole deaths in the City and suburbs were 1519. About this time the population began to in- crease very rapidly. A great number of Chapels and Meeting-houses were built in the suburbs, and to several of these burying grounds were at- tached, so that in 1798 there were more than a half of the funerals without the City. In the City burying grounds we have almost the whole of the higher classes of the community, a large proportion of the middle ranks, and a very considerable number of the poor. The... ex- tra burying grounds are more occupied-Hy the middle and lower orders of the community. I have noticed that in the suburbs, particularly' in Calton, the proportion of deaths among children is much greater than in the City. One of the prin- cipal causes of this, I am told, is, that children can be buried there at less expense. For the High Church burying ground there is one set of Registers; for the College and North West, another. The first of these commences with the year 1783, and the last a little earlier. For the ground attached to the Anderston Relief Meeting-house, there is a set of books which comprehend the same period. For the Calton B