Report on the health of Liverpool during the year 1858 / by W. H. Duncan.

Date:
1859
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report on the health of Liverpool during the year 1858 / by W. H. Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    this measure is evident from the fact that, while nearly 15,000 children were born in Liverpool last year, the certificates of successful vaccination, required by a recent Act of Parliament, amounted to less than 9000. Diseases of the Lungs (with Consumption) caused 4053 deaths, being about the corrected average of former years. The two weeks of highest mortality were in November (127 deaths) and in March (114) ; the latter being the week which followed that of the lowest temperature of the year, when the mean was 351 degrees. The minimum mortality (40) occurred in August, in the week subsequent to that of the highest mean temperature (68 degrees). Of the 4053 deaths, 1618 were from Con- sumption, of which 539 occurred in the out-townships. It is worthy of remark, that while the deaths in the out- townships from Diseases of the Lungs excluding Con- sumption, were nearly as 1 to 3 compared with those in the parish, the deaths from Consumption were as high as 1 to 2. The death-rate, however, in both cases was lower in the out-townships than in the parish, although the districts approach each other much more closely in the mortality from Consumption than from other diseases of the Lungs. In the parish the deaths from the latter class were one in 153 of the inhabitants, and in the out- townships 1 in 264; from Consumption they were 1 in 259, and 1 in 305 respectively. But not less than nine of the twelve parochial wards had a lower Consumption death-rate than the out-township aggregate ; the three exceptions being, Exchange, St. Anne's, and Lime Street. The mortality varied from 1 in 540 inhabitants in Castle Street Ward to as high as 1 in 256 in Lime Street. In the following list the sixteen Municipal Wards are ar- ranged in the order of their mortality from Consumption, in an ascending scale :—