The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-08-15 00:00:00

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY

We have received a return from the General Register-
office, exhibiting a quarterly table of the mortality in 114
of the districts of England (including the principal towns),
showing the number of deaths registered in the five years,
the average number of deaths in the five springs, 1838-
1842, and the number of deaths in the spring quarter of
1843, ending June 30 • together with a return, showing
the number of deaths from all causes in the metropolis,
re,gistered in the thirteen weeks endine July 1. 1843, and
other official statistical papers on the same subject. From
these returns, which exhibit in a most striking manner
the uncertainty of life, and the innumerable train of " ills
which flesh is heir to," we select the following geneial
statistical information, which will be found extremely in-
teresting and instructive :—ln the metropolis, the popula-
tion of which, according to the census taken in 1841,
amounted to 1,870,727, the total number of annual deaths
registered during the last five years was as follows : I n
1838, 52,698 ; 1839, 45,441 ; 1840, 46,281 ; 1841, 45,285 ;
and in 1842, 45,272; thus exhibiting a decrease in the
number of deaths between 1838 and 1842 of no less than
7,426. It will be observed that the great decline took
place in 1839, and that the remaining three years have
preserved a pretty equal average. The quarterly average
of deaths during the five years amounted to 11,749, and
the average during the five springs to 11,101 ; the deaths
in the spring quarter ending the 30th June last amounted
to 11,433. The grand total number of annual deaths re-
gistered in the 114 districts of England abovementioned,
which include the principal towns (exclusive of the metro-
politan city) during the same period, were as follow :
viz., in 1838, 109,321 ; in 1839, 116,505 ; 1840, 124,664;
1811, 114,664 ; and in 1842, 115,831; the quarterly average
of deaths during the five years amounted to 29,049, and
the average during the five springs, 29,107 •, the deaths in
the spring quarter, ending the 30th of June last, amounted
to 28,626. The gross total population of the 114 districts
in question, amounted, according to the census taken in
1841, to 1,663,808 souls. The largest number of deaths
occurs in the north-western division of England, which
includes the principal manufacturing towns. The annual
mortality of England is 2.2 per cent., and an extensive in-
vestigation of the mortality in all the statistical districts in
the kingdom has shown that less than 2 per cent. of the
population die in a great number of country districts, and
in some town districts. The average annual mortality in
the metropolis from 1840 to 1842 was 2.4 per cent.; whilst
that in the 114 districts of England during the same period
was 2.5 per cent. The average in the manufacturing dis-
tricts was as much as 2.8 per cent. The average in the
other divisions were as follow :—viz., in the south-western
division, 2.2 per cent. ; in the western division, 2.5 per
cent. ; in the northern division, 2.3 per cent. ; and in the
eastern division, 2.3 per cent.. &c. Of the 114 districts,
33 in the metropolis, and 81 comprise the principal towns
and cities in England. From the table of the mortality in
the metropolis showing the number of deaths from all
causes registered in the thirteen weeks ending the Ist of
July last, it appears that the gross total amount was
£11,433, of which 2,409 were occasioned by epidemic,
endemic, and contagious diseases ; 1,824 by diseases of the
brain, spinal marrow, nerves, and senses ; 3,380 by diseases
of the lungs and other respiratory organs ; 313 by diseases
of the heart and blood vessels ; 826 by diseases of the
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stomach, liver, and other digestive organs; 90 by diseases
of the kidneys, &c. • 114 by diseases of the organs of
parturition, &c. ; 103' by rheumatism, diseases of bones,
6'1,2.09; Ib3ybdyrdoipsseya,secsaonfcer, &c. ; 819 by old age ; 266 by
violency, privation, or intemperance ; and 67 by causes
not specified. It thus appears that diseases of the organs
of respiration carry off a greater number of patients
than any of the other maladies included in the table
before us. The average number of deaths in the spring
quarters of 1838-9-40-41-42 (from all causes) amounted
to 11,101. The epidemic of typhus, or what is vaguely
called fever, appears (says the report) to be declining in
the metropolis, the mortality of which it has tended to
raise. In the following districts the mortality was greater
than the spring average of the same districts, viz.,
Brighton, Portsea Island, Devizes, Liverpool, West
Derby, Blackburn, Chorlton, Huddersfield, Halifax,
Bradford, Gateshead, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Cockermouth,
and Wrexham. In the following districts it was less,
viz., Isle of Wight, St. Albans, Cambridge, Ipswich, Nor-
wich, Exeter, Redruth, Bath, Bristol, Cifton, Shrews-
bury, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Leicester,
Stockport, Bury, Manchester, Ashton, Abergavenny,
Merthyr-Tydvil, and Anglesea. The barometer was 0.123
below the average of the season. The mean temperature
was 55.6 deg. which is 0.8 deg. above the average, but
1.6 deg. below the temperature of the previous spring
(1842). The mean of the maxima (day) temperature was
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