Smoke abatement : a lecture delivered in the lecture room of the Exhibition, July 21st, 1884 / by Ernest Hart.

  • Ernest Abraham Hart
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1884
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Credit: Smoke abatement : a lecture delivered in the lecture room of the Exhibition, July 21st, 1884 / by Ernest Hart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1,000. Deaths of children under one year of age, 162 per 1,000 births. Group III., comprising Prescot, Ormskirk, Wigan, Warrington, Leigh, Bolton, Bury, Blackburn, Chorley, and Preston, with an enumerated population of 1,142,413, shows deaths from all causes 25,912, average death-rate, 22*7 per 1,000 ; deaths from principal zymotic diseases, 5,417, average death-rate, 474; small-pox, 23, average death-rate, o‘02 ; measles, 592, average death-rate, o’52 per 1,000 ; scarlet fever, 1,076, average death-rate, 0*94; diphtheria, 90, average death-rate, 0*08 ; whooping-cough, 732, average death- rate, 0^64; fever, 592, death-rate, 0*52 per 1,000; diarrhceal diseases, 2,312, average death-rate, 2*02. Deaths of children under one year, 174 to each 1,000 births. Group IV., comprising Huddersfield, Halifax, Bradford, Hunslet, Holbeck, Bramley, and Leeds, with an enumerated population of 966,035, gives the following mortality returns :— Deaths' from all causes, 22,671, with an average death-rate of 21-4; deaths from principal zymotic diseases, 3,244, with an average death-rate of 3^36; scarlet fever, 621, with an average death-rate of 0*64; diphtheria, 54, with an average death-rate of o‘o6 per 1,000 ; whooping-cough, 354, with a death-rate of 0*37 ; fever, 519 deaths, being a death-rate of 0*54 per 1,000 ; diarrhceal diseases, 1,354, an average death-rate of 1*40 per 1,000. Deaths of children under one year, 166 per 1,000 births. Next comes Group V., which is a rural group comprising the counties of Wilts, Dorset, and Devon, exclusive of town districts of Devizes, Salisbury, Weymouth, Exeter, and Plymouth, with an enumerated population of 804,764, and shows deaths from all causes 14,226, with an average death-rate of 177 ; deaths from principal zymotic diseases, 1,596, with an average death-rate of 1*98; measles, 439, an average death-rate of 0*55 per 1,000; scarlet fever, 230 deaths, or an average death-rate of 0*29; diphtheria, 51 deaths, average death-rate, 0*06 ; whooping-cough, 262 deaths, average death-rate, 0*33 ; fever, 202 deaths, average death-rate, o’25 per 1,000; diarrhceal diseases, 411, average death-rate, 0*50 per 1,000. Deaths of children under one year of age, 115 per 1,000 births. I have also the same figures made out for the cholera year of 1866, with the following result :— No. 2. Mortality Statistics for London, and Four Groups of Manufacturing and One of Rural Districts, during the Cholera Year of 1866.—In London, with an estimated population for 1866 of
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