On the advantages to be derived from the adoption of the Local Government Act, as exemplified in Croydon / by Edward Westall.

  • Westall, Edward.
Date:
1865
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Credit: On the advantages to be derived from the adoption of the Local Government Act, as exemplified in Croydon / by Edward Westall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    generally, that of Croydon holds an unfavourable position at each stage of life.” He also shows, the death-rate from Fever to have been, from 1840 to >8+5 1845 to 1850 7‘6 „ And all Zymotic Diseases, 1840 to 1845 1845 t0 1850 I find in the three years 1848-49-50, the following death-rate: Fever. All Zymotic Diseases. 7*95 per cent 27 £>er cent. Thus the danger was still increasing. In the years 1851-52-53, when the works were in operation and the fever was epidemic, the mortality showed a very inconsiderable increase; being Fever. All Zymotic Diseases. 8*3 per cent 25.6 per cent. After the completion of the works, the death-rate in 1854-55-56, was Fever. All Zymotic Diseases. 47 per cent 22 per cent. Taking the two periods of ten years, years 1845-54 and 1855-64, the death-rate was Fever. All Zymotic Diseases. 1845-54—7.5 per cent 27*3 per cent. 1855-64—3.1 per cent 17*2 per cent. The deaths from cholera were, in 1849, IO*3 Per cent-> in 1854 7*8 on the gross mortality. These figures speak for themselves. The details I will place before you; but they are too voluminous for this paper. The birth-rate in the ten years: 1845 to 1854 2*912 per cent. 1855 to 1864 3*141 The proportion of deaths to the population was, in the years 1845-54, 1 in 48 ; 1855 to 1864, 1 'm 54- The average duration of life was, in the years 1845-54, 30 years 1 month; 1855-64, 33 years.