[Manchester and Salford Registration Returns 1868].

Date:
1868
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    COMMUNICATED TO THE WEEKLY ZRIETTTIRIUr. Vol. VIII.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1868. No. 388. DISEASES.—The extent to which they prevailed in Pauper, Charitable, and Public Institutions of Manchester and Salford. .. iV, ,f ; t-' , ;Vr; I The disease returns are high and unsatisfactory. In the week ending on Saturday, the 4th instant, 1619 new cases of disease and injuries occasioned by accidents were observed in the public practice of Manchester and Salford ; the deaths at the same time among patients of the pauper and hospital class were numerous, amounting to 70, being in the proportion of 1 death to every 23 cases. The returns of the more important diseases are considerably higher than those of the previous week. Seizures from diseases of the respiratory organs for example exhibit a marked increase, 339 instead of 254 new cases being returned. Continued Fever also proved considerably more general than it was a week ago ; of 81 new cases 27 are assigned to true Typhus; 11 of these patients were admitted into the Manchester Workhouse, 4 into the Royal Infirmary, and 4 into the Chorlton Workhouse. In many parts of the town Whooping-Cough is still very general and appears to be gaining ground, 12 new cases being received at the Manchester Workhouse, while 8 more were treated at the Salford Hospital, and 6 at the Clinical Hospital. The attacks of Scarlet Fever in the course of the week amounted to 22, and those of Measles to 7. No other disease occurred to any unusual extent. DEATHS.—The Number Registered in Manchester and Salford, and their Causes. Last week 322 deaths were registered in the eleven districts which supply returns to the Sanitary Association. In the two previous weeks the numbers were 290 and 259. Diseases of the Lungs proved fatal to 106 persons, Whooping-Cough to 29, and Fever to 19. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean temperature of the air in the week was 30*1° or 7*0° below the average; at the Royal Infirmary it was 34T°; at the Salford Observatory 34*50 ; and at Eccles 33*0°. JOHN ED. MORGAN, M.D., M.A, Hon. Sec. Committee Rooms, 33, Pall Mall, Manchester.