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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    Thus, there are two deaths iu the same house, at No. 2, Cliapel Court. 'I’liere arc three deaths at No. 13, Boond Street, and two at No. 18 ia this street. TJierc are three deaths from tul)ercular diseiise at No. 10, Jopsoa s Court, and two at No, 3 ia the saaie coafiaed space. There are two at No. 3, Hewitt’s Court, and ia the short Hood Street tliere are two deaths eadi at the three houses. Nos. 2, 3G, and 15. Ia Sj)ital Street there arc two such coiacidcaces, one at No. 12, and another at No, 29, la Oua Street there are two deaths at No. 43, two ia Blossom Street at No. 52, ami in Bennett’s ('ourt tliere are three at No. 5. Lastly, ia Loom Street, there are two at No. 2. All tliese streets and courts are comparatively short and narrow la the rest of the district there are, ia Henry Street, four cases of such coincidences of mortality from tulxircular disease (at Nos. 9, 20, 30, and 52), one ia No. 31, Bengal Street, and one in Jersey Street at No, 29. Altogether there were 21 sucli coincidences, 45 deaths in all, and only 12 of them occurred in the larger streets, whilst in the narrow closed-in alleys and in the small courts there were 33 deaths occurring in fifteen houses iu groups of two or three. The character of the houses, as we have seen from Mr. Leigh’s description of the district, is much the same in all its parts—they are nearly all hack to back, and have no through ventilation—the sulKsoil is common to them all— the differences in the mortality may, therefore, with much ])robability, bo referred to the differences in the ventilation of the .several streets and courts, and I think that the fre- (juency with which certain portions of the district are visited liy the disease justifies me in applying to these portions the appellation of “ phthisis nests.” In Salford, the districts into which it is divided are much smaller than those in Manchester—they are, in fact, the enumeration districts adopted at the last census. Dr. 'fatham, the Medical Officer of Health for this borough, kindly selected for me three contiguous jwrtions of Green- gat ), with a total population of 2,609, about half the size of