On the mortality of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent : with reference to its causes, and the ratio of deaths among children and potters / by J.T. Arlidge.

  • Arlidge, J. T. (John Thomas), 1822-1899.
Date:
1864
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Credit: On the mortality of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent : with reference to its causes, and the ratio of deaths among children and potters / by J.T. Arlidge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE MORTALITY OF THE PARISH OF STOKE- UPON-TRENT, WITH REFERENCE TO ITS CAUSES, AND THE RATIO OF DEATHS AMONG CHILDREN AND POTTERS, BY J. T. ARLIDGE, A.B. and M.B., (Lond.,) Member of the Royal College of Physicians, of London; Senior Physician to the North Staffordshire Infirmary. Formerly Physician to the West London Hospital, ifee. The increase of wealth, the multiplication of the assumed wants and of the luxuries of civilized life, and the development of commerce concur to render this more and more a manufacturing country, and the welfare of those engaged in manufacture a matter of national importance. But this growth of manufacture brings its attendant evils with it: it collects men into large masses as inhab- itants of towns, and thereby subjects them to conditions of life unfavourably contrasting with those enjoyed by the cultivators of the soil, and, also, to many injurious influences connected with the processes of manufacture; and these evils are augmented by the effects of keen competition in trade, by the demand for cheapness of production, and by ignorance, indifference to, or the wilful neglect of the laws of health, in towns themselves, in factories, and in pri- vate dwellings, by the population at large. Granting the importance of sustaining the manufacturing interests of the country, of promoting and extending them, it must be equally important in policy to further the well-being of the work- men engaged in them. An unhealthy population, early deaths, and a high rate of mortality, are conditions to be deplored, not only from a philanthropic, but, also, from a practical and economical point of view, and I feel assured that any investigations relative to the sanitary state of the population in such a large manufacturing centre as “ the Potteries” constitute, must be of interest to all those