Where consumption is bred in Manchester and Salford : a paper read before the Economic and Statistical Section of the British Association, Manchester Meeting, 1887 / by Arthur Ransome.

  • Ransome, Arthur, 1834-1922.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Where consumption is bred in Manchester and Salford : a paper read before the Economic and Statistical Section of the British Association, Manchester Meeting, 1887 / by Arthur Ransome. 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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    most infected with phtbisid are also the most confined and ill ventilated, and that the largest proptirtion of deaths from this disease take place in the cave-like, back-to-back cottages. The phthisis-rate }>er annum is even higher than in Aucoats, being 6 2 per 1,000, The sultsoil underlying these districts is mainly clayey and alluvial. In the Regent Road District, Xo. 3, with 791 inhabitants, there were in six years 40 deaths from undoubted lulx;r- cular dist'aso, which is as high an average rate as that of Oroengate, but the amingement of the houses is less regular, and there are many works inters]>erse<l amongst them. It is thus more difficult to make a CHunparison Itetween the several parts of the district There are also fewer back-to- back houses, but ten out of the 40 casce occurred in five houses, that is, there are five coincidences of the disease in the 8j»me house—two in t^uay Street, one in Shaw Stret't, one in Yorkshire Street, and one in a small court callecl Bennett’s S<]uare, OUAV STRCCT file fiicts now detailed are not perhaps in themselves entirely conclusive. There is a possibility that some portion (»t the statistics is vitiated by imperfect observations—in <>t her words, that in some coses a wrong diagnosis has l>een made. ’I'here is also some uncertainty as to whether the disease originated iu the houses in which the several deaths