On the mortality of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent : with reference to its causes, and the ratio of deaths among children and potters / by J.T. Arlidge.

  • Arlidge, J. T. (John Thomas), 1822-1899.
Date:
1864
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Credit: On the mortality of the parish of Stoke-upon-Trent : with reference to its causes, and the ratio of deaths among children and potters / by J.T. Arlidge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The general lesson deducible from the preceding tables is, that the several causes tabulated are destructive of li fe, in the parish of Stoke, in a much higher ratio in proportion to the population living at different periods, than in the population of England at large. There is only one single exception, viz : in the proportion of deaths from consumption occurring between the fifth and tenth years of existence, viz : 22 per 100,000 in Stoke, compared with 53 in England. But the number of deaths in Stoke, upon which the proportion is calculated, is too small to make this exception of im- portance. Had there been five deaths instead of two, the death-rate in Stoke would have equalled that in England at large. Besides, if we pursued the plan of treating diseases of the lungs and consump- tion together, as we have done elsewhere, the death-rate for that period of life would have been higher in Stoke than in England. The figures representing the ratio of deaths in England from diseases of the lungs, in the recent parliamentary return (Feb. 5, 1864) are, for those under five, 1,040 per 100,000, as calculated from an average of the ten years, 1851-60. Were this used instead of the calculated ratio for 1861, viz: 1,090, the excess in Stoke would appear still higher. The average for London is 1,480 per 100,000 of those dying from those maladies under five years old; although, in some of the parishes largely occupied by the very poor, the death-rate rises higher than in Stoke. Of the towns and cities in England, oidy two or three surpass or equal Stoke in the death- rate, under five years of age, from diseases of the lungs. The deaths of males only, from twenty upwards, arising from diseases of the lungs, and from consumption, are equal, in each malady, viz : to 505 per 100,000 males living at the same period in Stoke; whereas, in England, they equal, for consumption, 373, and for diseases of the chest, 339 per 100,000. The deaths of females, in the same period of life, were 323 from diseases of the lungs, and 461 from consump- tion, in Stoke, compared with 259 from the former, and 349 from the latter malady, in England, in every 100,000 living. These figures exhibit an excessive mortality in Stoke, from the maladies in question, as compared with that in England; an excess much more striking in the case of adult men, in Stoke, than in adult women, and particularly as respects the mortality of chest diseases, not including consumption. § V.—Deaths in relation to their causes and to the ages of those dead. Of the 2107 deaths in the parish of Stoke :— 381 were assigned to Diseases of Lungs 268 ,, Consumption (Phthisis) 673 ,, Zymotic Diseases 168-5 ,, all other causes or 18-08 per cent, or 12-71 ,, or 17*70 ,, or 5149 ,,