Report on the health of Liverpool during the year 1864 / by W.S. Trench.

Date:
1865
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report on the health of Liverpool during the year 1864 / by W.S. Trench. 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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    tables the deaths which oocurred in the Workhouse Hospital have been trans- ferred to the Wards from whence the patients are said to have come. This is done advisedly, for the purpose of localising as far as possible the seats or origins of disease ; but it must not be forgotten that tramps and vagrants will occasionally be credited to a district where they may only have stopped for a single night. Weekly Registry or Deaths from Typhus. ■ ■ ■ 1st Quarter.. 21 23 26 31 20 25 19 18 24 24 22 25 23 307 2nd „ .. 22 24 32 21 20 23 31 23 27 25 30 33 28 330 3rd „ .. 17 32 25 38 30 32 26 32 28 35 31 37 32 395 4th „ . , 48 48 44 53 54 56 54 55 77 60 56 63 65 733 1774 Distribution of Typhus Deaths. Wards. 1st Quarter. 2nd Quarter. 3rd Quarter. 4th Quarter. Year. 17 17 45 60 139 74 75 105 201 455 St. Paul's G 6 20 39 71 26 11 .18 35 90 19 20 39 59 143 10 10 7 31 58 1 5 1 8 15 5 0 4 3 18 Pitt n 9 5 11 34 19 24 17 33 93 11 3 3 20 37 5 19 C 35 65 Everton arid Kirkdale .... 33 35 72 174 North Toxteth 23 21 17 21 82 South Toxteth 28 30 31 48 137 15 1 28 22 1 28 5 93 7 o 0 5 1 8 17 2 10 18 16 ■J 6 397 339 395 783 1774 It will be necessary, however, in order accurately to estimate the position of the Toxteth Wards in reference to typhus, that a supplementary table be added showing the number of deaths of patients who, during the year, went from these districts to the Smithdown Fever Hospital, which, being beyond the parliamentary boundaries, is not included iu the annual death registry of Liverpool. 1st Qr. 2nd Qr. 3rd Qr. 4th Qr. Total. North Toxteth 22 15 37 South Toxteth CO 29 89