The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufacturers of Leeds, and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents which produce diseases and shorten the duration of life / by C. Turner Thackrah.

  • Thackrah, Charles Turner, 1795-1833.
Date:
1831
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Credit: The effects of the principal arts, trades, and professions, and of civic states and habits of living, on health and longevity : with a particular reference to the trades and manufacturers of Leeds, and suggestions for the removal of many of the agents which produce diseases and shorten the duration of life / by C. Turner Thackrah. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fishmongers, who bring fish irom the coast, are of course greatly exposed to the weather. They are not, however, subject to rheumatism or other inflam- matory disease. Generally hardy and temperate, they enjoy health, and attain considerable age. Different is the state of the retailers of fish, in towns. These are often addicted to dram-dunking, and are conse- quently sickly and short-live.! Cart-drivers, though exposed to atmospheric vi- cissitudes, are healthy in proportion to their temper- ance and the nourishment they take. Their wages, however, are low; they are often indifferently fed; and many, particularly among the coal-leaders, con- gregate and spend at the ale-house that money, which would )$ better employed in buying solid food. The attention of masters might do much to correct the evil. Labourers in Husbandry, Sand Leaders, and Men employed on the roads, would be healthy, were their means of subsistence adequate to their wants. A man who has himself, his wife, and family to support on twelve or sixteen shillings a week, can- not be well fed. Hence this body of men are far less robust in figure, than we should expect from the nature of their employ. They are subject to disor- ders of the digestive organs, and generally suffer also greatly from epidemics. Brickmakers, with the advantage of full muscular exercise in the open air, are subject to the annoyance