The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-06

The mortality of the district of Lewisham
and sub-dstrict of Hampstead, is included In
this table throughout.
In London there has been no sign of improve
ment; 10 9S7, l2,60l, and 1887 deaths were
registered in the September quarters of 1845,
1916, and ls47. The deaths in the summer quar-
81, and 800; measles, 6ss, 7s, and 52l; scarlati:
ma, 1884, POS, and 3l6; diarrhGa, 449, 1919, and
1895; cholera, rs, 1877, and 50; dysentery, 43, IS,
and l43; remittent fever. 8, IL, 23; typhus, 273,
IN tic class of diseases generally, 2i09, 1924, and
406l. The deaths from diseases of the respira-
tory organs were nearly stationary; 1858, 1884,
and 1881 l PERSONS died Of CONSUMPTION; III, 81,
eases Of the lungs; Two, three, and sixteen
deaths were dire city ascribed to various kinds
ofprlvaton in the three last September quarters.
The increase in the deaths by external violence,
which were 342, 403, and 49, may have arisen
from erysipelas and other affections supervening
on accidents IN an unusual proportion
In the first nine weeks OF the quarter, the mean
temper ture of the atmosphere, and oofthe waters
OF the Thames, was above 60 deg; the mortality
IN London from diarrh9a, dysentery and cho-
era rose from II on the first to 1873 on the Sc
LOT on the last week. Typhus, ragged with un.
usual virulence. The weekly deaths were never
below 80, and in the third week of September
Ill persons died of this disease. The weekly
average was ~ tor the same quarter OF flve pre-
cedlng years.
The epidemic of fever has been more fatal in
Lancashire than in London. In Manchester,
Stafford, and Chorlton, 4, l54 deaths were regis
the, prevalent diseases. Typhus carries off men
and women in the PRIME of life Diarrhna de-
stroys. more children, and becomes dangerous
TO adults In the form OF cholera
Liverpool, created in haste by commerce; by
men too intent on lmme date gain; reared with
out any very tender regard for flesh or blood;
and fiourishlng while her working population
was rotting in cellars-has been severely taught
the lesson that part of the population, whether
In cellars or on distant shores, cannot suffer
without involving the whole community in ca
of the kingdom, Liverpool has for year been
the hospital and cemetery of Ireland. The
deaths registered in the four quarters of ls46
were 1884 209s, 2,946, and 2,7a6; in the three
4,sO9 and 5,669 The population of Liverpool
223, 054 at the last census. 1t is impossible
TO represent more correctly than is done by the
short notes Of the registrars, the plteous spec
floating lazarettos on the Mersey, the work
houses crowded with destitute ,paupers, the
three large sheds which will hold 800 persons,
nearly full of patients at the present time," and
The fever "getting more prevalent among the
upper classes"
The mortality remains high in Birmingham,
Dudley, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, in many
of the towns of LaDchashire, In Leeds, Hull,
York, and Sunderland. The returns from the
other towns of the kingdom present nothing I'M
usual, the mortality being much the same as in
tally. The absolute mortality is always higher
by from 10 to 30 per cent In towns, than in open
country districts. This is illustrated by a COM
parison of the deaths registered in London
which would have happened if the rate Of NOR
taity had been the same as in DOrsetshire, one
ol the agricultural counties, in which the wages
are low, and In which the condition of the la
o-l5 1876 35-55 SIS and All
upwds. ages.
ps ssDs" SSs n wca 1854 III" 1883 q" 1888
have happened If The
tn, ms . :sy al. a:: 4. s:;f 3d. ss 100 1867 10. 500
setshire IN september
quarters 1894. !
don during the Is weeks 500 IT SIG sD ,,o7s
3.5o6 children under 10 years of age were de.
stroyed In London, in addition to 3,O7s carried
same as those fatal in the country. The mortal
lty IS equal at the age 1885, when London re-
celves healthy recruits from the various coun-
ties. After the age of 80 the mortality is As per
cent higher In London than in Dorseishire. If
the chance that man above 35 will die in the
country during the summer quarter be represent
ed by z the chance that he will die in London is
ne'rly g. 1t may be. admitted, that part Of the
that IN their houses and persons they are dirtier
than the country people still the great excess of
mortality, and In part, perhaps, the lntemperance
and impurlty, must be ascrlbed to the crowding,
the want OF water, decayIng animal ana vepeta-
bic matters unremoved, and the ineficiencv of
the sewers, which neither carry off the solid,
hquld, or gaseous matters, poured into or gene
latea witnin them every day. If the chance of
dying is increased from two in the country to
three IN London, the liability to suffer from cpl
denies is raised still more,
All the diseases OF me zymotic class--such as
sma poH, measlee, scarlatina, tyPhus influenza,
fhn L.Ll l. r
becoming epidemic. After certain intervals
oil tl.he, In which they are fatal to a smaller or
sceater number of persons in different places and
seasons, great mutltudes are suddenly attacked
and destroyed In u given locality the disease in
THIS intense form involves the neighboring popu-
iation, spreads around the whole region and
sometimes travels over the tracks of human in
ercouise through the world. Little is known
OF the Immediate chemical or vital causes Of
cploemics; but IN given circumstances where
many are immersed IN an atmosphere OF decay
my organic matter, some Zymotic disease is in
yarably produced; where there is starvation, il
IS most frequently typhus cold, influenza heat,
cholera, yellow fever, plague. At the mouths
OF me panges, of the Nile, of the Niger; in
London, particularly up to the 18th century in
o IA barracks, IN ships, IN prisons formerly;
IL ~ hclanu, III Liverpool, In all on, towns now,
,nc circumstances in which zymotic diseases
Decome epidemic may be witnessed.
cry breathing an atmosphere. perfectly pure
may not be exempt from every endemic but OBJ
eervalon has shown that such irruntions arc in
frequent, and fatal to few persons Of strength or
stamina. Internal sanitary arrangements, and
not quarantine or sanitary lines, are the safe
guards of nations. A salubrious CITY in an cpl
demic, like city built of stone ia 4 conAaora-
ton, is exposed to danger and injury, but not to
the same extent as the present cities of Europe.
gni , are ,su without any adequate regulations
tor Inc heaith and security of their inhatitants
The, great historical epidemics have dimi-
nishtd IN intensltyi and there appears to be no
reasou why they should not be. ultimately sup.
smeag which they take their rise, Their ori.