The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

rict is to a great extent composed of
if Irish, who live and lod

ge together in

In one part of the district, called• ' An-
gel Meadow,' it is not uncommon to find 20 or 30 persons

the house

where t

ccomrn odation

especially if health is to be
ng the last two or three

months, large numl

of the-poor from Ireland have

droves of them ram-

d no doubt

inclement weathe:

om cold, producing

he great inerea

I- instituted inquiries
aced had been in England,
id found in very many cases they had been only a few
The poverty and destitution of the district at
The houses are badly ventilated.

last few v

as to_the length of time de

present is very great

and the odour arising from so

gether in a confined apartment must hate a very injuri-
ous effect. It cannot be surprising that while such a
stale of things exists the mortality should be great."
The same thing has been noticed in Liverpool. The
Registrar of St. Thomas says :—" A considerable portion
of the increase (of deaths) arises from the great influx of
the poor from Ireland, most of whom are quite desti-
tute when they arrive. Some hive been only a few
weeks, and others a few days in the town previous to their
death." The " high price of provisions," " Depression
in trade," and " Distress," are referred to by the Regis-
trars of Stockport and Little Bolton, as causes of the
high mortality in December last. The failure of the
potato crop and the dearness of provisions left the poor
very ill able to provide the additional clothing and tiring
required by the severity of the weather, and their suffer-
ings must have been aggravated while their earnings were
at the same time diminished. However, no mention is
made of the potato disease having per se had any direct
connection with the mortality. No doubt large quantities
of the potato in a partially diseased state were consumed
by the poor; but still it does not appear that its use even

in this

ate has been productive

any specific di

appreciable connection witli

lisorders of the bowel

and fever which grew preva-

s came into USE

The return next

the mortality in different p.

!es in the s

Lt populai

lanchest
rri„. .7

Salford; and

cember quarter 0f1845 were 2555, and in the same
quarter of 1846 they increased to 4029 ; whilst in 1841
the population of Anglesea was 38,105; the deaths being,
in 1845, no more than 163, and in 1846 they were 206
thus, after allowing for increase of population, the inha-
bitants of Manchester, &c., were probably 10 times as
numerous as the inhabitants of Anglesea ; the mortality
was 15 timed as great in 1845, and 20 times as great in

The same maybe said of all the manu6ctUring
districts as compared with the agricultural. It is found
from the- returns of the seven years, 1838 to 1844, that
the mortality of Liverpool and Manchester, and the worst
part of other towns, has nearly doubled the mortality of
tolerably salubrious districts ; and it is here seen that
while the mortality of the latter districts was raised 50 or
70per cent., the ordinary but unnatural and frightful mor-
tality of the dense districts was raised from 70 to 100 per
cent. in 1846 over what it was in 1845. Opinions differ as to
what fraction of the suffering and death in the manufac-
turing districts is to be attributed to the want of water or
of sewerage—crowded lodgings, narrow and ill cleansed
streets, badly ventilated workshops—the destitution of
skilful medical advice—the neglect of children, doses of
opium and overfiowings of quackery—the nuisance of
slaughter-houses and rank churchyards ; but a large
amount of the misery may be fairly set down to the want
of proper sanatory regulationS. Liverpool we hope, how-

ever, to see soon exempted from this disgrace

following notes on the nature of the disease prevalent in
the several districts of LiverpooLmay not be uninteresting
to our readers, we will close this condensation with givi
a few extractE
St. Martin

-Typhus, diarri

melt, and dyg
Deaths for the c

~revaili