Sanitary survey of the state / [Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives].

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[1849]
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Credit: Sanitary survey of the state / [Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives]. 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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    or $ 1849.] HOUSE—No. 00. collateral facts that have been brought to light, your memorial- ists think, they have reason to believe, that there is, in this country, a similar diversity of sanitary influences in various lo- calities, and of sanitary conditions of the people, in various dis- tricts and circumstances. The registration reports of this Commonwealth show, that life is very much longer in some towns, and in some counties, than in others, that the average duration of all whose deaths are reported in Franklin County is And in Middlesex, 38 years, 10 months, 24 days, 28 “ 2 lt 22 U The bills of mortality show, that the average of life in Bos- ton, is but 22 years, 8 months, 19 days, while in Plympton, it is 40 years and 10 months. The legistration reports state, that near twenty-eight per cent, ot the deaths, in the five western counties, and thirty-two per cent, in the six counties bordering on the sea coast, not includ- ing Suffolk, were of persons under five years of age, and the bills ot the mortality of Boston show, that forty-four per cent, of the deaths in that city, were of persons who had not passed their fifth year. From other sources, it is found; that the aver- age longevity of the poor is much less than that of the prosper- ous, and that, in some towns, the more favored classes enjoy a ength of life sixty-six per cent, greater than that which is meted out to the poor, and that, while less than thirteen per cent, of the children of affluence die under two years of age, more than in ty-two per cent, of the children of poverty die within the same period of infancy. It is probable, that the amount of sickness is distributed in still gieater inequality of proportion. The best English au- honties state, that, lor every death, there are two constantly sick, hat is for every death, there are 730 days of sickness 1 along into consideration the greater prevalence of disease among the poor in England, than among the comfortable classes whose conditions have been examined, it is extremely probable hat, for every death, there are much more Mian 730 days of sickness among the less favored classes of the people.
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