Summary of experience on disease, and comparative rates of mortality / by William Lee.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Summary of experience on disease, and comparative rates of mortality / by William Lee. 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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    Page Gaywood - .- ..--.--23 John Tweedale, Esq., M.D. - - 24 Henry Smythe, Esq., Surgeon - 24 Diss - - - - Mr. Eobert Downing - - - 24 Eeadikg - I- - - T. L. Walford, Esq., Surgeon - 24 John W. Workman, Esq., Surgeon 25 F. A. Bulley, Esq., Surgeon - - 26 Gainsborough - - William Cooke, Esq., Surgeon - 26 Robert Cooke, Esq., Surgeon - 27 Alfeeton ... Dreadful visitation of Fever - - 27 Mr. Thomas Parsons - - - 27 March . - - - Henry Wright, Esq., Surgeon - ^ Henry Calver, Esq., Surgeon - - 29 Selbt - - - - Fever and Cholera - - - 29 Destruction of Life in Mill-gate - 30 John Fothergill, Esq., Sugeon - 31 Wisbech and Walsoken - John Lilley, Esq., Surgeon - - 31 Robert Q. Wallace, Esq., Surgeon . 31 Charles Parker's Wife - - - 32 Smith Burman, Esq., Surgeon - 32 Norwich ... - The most filthy and unhealthy place in 1844, the same in 1850 - - 33 Charles Drake, Esq., Surgeon - 33 G. W.W. Firth, Esq., Surgeon - 33 Launcelot Dashwood,W. Cooper, and Henry R. Edgar, Esqrs., Surgeons 34 W. Bransby Francis, Esq., Surgeon 34 W.ChristopherThurgar,Esq., Surgeon 34 James S. Garthon, Esq., Surgeon - 34 AxVASTON AND BouLTON - Rev. Edward Poole - - - 35 WUliam Hollis, Esq., Surgeon - 35 Worksop - - - - William Beardsall, 15sq., Surgeon - 35 Thomas L. Beardsall, Esq., Surgeon 36 Henry Hase, Esq., Surgeon - - 36 RoTHERHASi « - - Edward J. Shearman, Esq., ALD. 37 Deductions AND Conclusions on Medical Evidence, &c. - - 37 VITAL STATISTICS 41 Localized Filth and Moisture the gi'eat Causes of Disease - - 41 Table 1. Places visited:—Contour, Geology, Population, Staple Avocations, Rates of Mortality, and Prevalent Diseases . - 42 Typhus Fever independent of the Circumstances in the Table - 44 No connexion between density of Population and high rates of Mortality - - - - - - - - ..-44 Disease and Mortality not appreciably affected by staple avocations - 44 The gi'eatest destruction takes place where the Drainage is worst - 44 Table 2. Actual Rates of Mortality, from various causes, and at different periods of life, in Towns visited - - - - - 46 The great Mass lose nearly half the attainable period of Life - - 47 Deterioration in the Sanitary Condition of Towns - - - 47 Table 3. Reading - 48 Table 4. Gainsborough ------- 49 Epsom - -- ..-.-50 Ely 50 Selby 50 Table 5. Wisbech 51 Table 6. Norwich .-..-.-52 Reference to Reports on other Towns - - - - 53 CoirpARisoN of Towns visited, with the remainders of their own Registration Disti-icts - -- -..--53 Table 7. Rates of Mortality in remainders - - - 54