The vital statistics of Sheffield / by G. Calvert Holland.

Date:
1843
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The vital statistics of Sheffield / by G. Calvert Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    THE RATE OF INCREASE IN THE POPULATION. There ai’e few manufactiuing towns that have advanced more rapidly in wealth and population than Sheffield. The subjoined statements show the immense increase in the latter witlun the period of one century. The increased wealth cannot he measured. Were this possible, it would be found in a much greater ratio than that of population. The numerous villas wliich adorn the neighhom’ing hiUs— the expensive estahhshments—the costly equipages—the manifest command of luxmies and comforts unknown to the same class of manufacturers, forty years ago, indicate an amount of progress, perfectly startling to the sober calculations of men, sti’angers to the productive powers of commerce. The wealth of the town cannot, however, he compared witli that of many other places, such as Manchester, Leeds, or even Birmingham; nor does the trade canied