This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...Wigan, Warrington), or between 30-40 per 1,000 (Manchester, Salford, Blackburn, Burnley, Bury, and Bolton), and even to rates per 1,000 above 40 (Preston). The most notable difference indeed between rural districts and the towns is in just this matter of diarrhoea of which the mortality may be as much ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...Wigan, Warrington), or between 30-40 per 1,000 (Manchester, Salford, Blackburn, Burnley, Bury, and Bolton), and even to rates per 1,000 above 40 (Preston). The most notable difference indeed between rural districts and the towns is in just this matter of diarrhoea of which the mortality may be as much as seven or eight times as great in the towns as in the country. Nor is the difference less marked when we come into towns and compare the most urban portion of large towns with the least urban portion. The medical officer of the administrative county of London has shown that it is the most central of the metropolitan districts, and those which are most densely populated with the poorer classes, which suffer most from epidemic diarrhoea. In Manchester it has been found that not merely on the average of ten years but for individual years the death rates from diarrhoea show that the fatality from this disease is much higher in the Manchester township than in the South Manchester or the Northern districts.2 The same is true of Birmingham, in the wards of which city the diarrhoeal death rate in 1904 varied from 43 per 1,000 in St. Bartholomew's Ward to only r12 in Edgbaston and Fifty-fourth Annual Report of Registrar-General, 1891, pp. xi.-xvi. Rejf. on Health of Manchester, 1904, p. 177. Harborne.1 Indeed so marked is the difference, that Dr. Robertson adds that "for practical purposes all the deaths from diarrhoea occurred in small houses occupied by the artisan classes, that is to say, this enormous mortality among infants from diarrhcea is limited to the working classes. No deaths occurred in any middle-class or better-class houses during the time of the inquiry. In a few instances cases were investigated of deaths in houses of six, ...
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