The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan.

  • Morgan, John Edward, 1829-1892.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    young. Few, comparatively, leave their homes under fifteen years of age, consequently, up to this period of life, the population of any par- ticular place may be looked upon as tolerably stationary. In my fourth table (see Appendix, table 4, page 58) will be found the value of life, in the different counties, under fifteen. It is calculated, from the returns of the Registrar- General for the years 1860 and 1861, and relates to the agricultural counties, and like- wise to the four chief cities. The former year proved favourable to health, the latter was characterised by a considerable amount of sick- ness. On comparing this table with the results arrived at in the annual reports for the two years where the death-rate is calculated on every 1,000 living, the difference will be found sufficiently striking. In the four great cities, instead of amounting to 26T, it is expressed by 40-7. It was highest in Liverpool, where the average rate for the two vears was 48-5: in Manchester, 42*5 ; in Birmingham, 39 ; and in London, 33. In Wiltshire it did not exceed 18; and in Berkshire, Dorsetshire, and West- R