Observations on the questions at present pending in the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows : with some suggestions for the settlement of the same / by F.G.P. Neison.

  • Neison, F. G. P. (Francis Gustavus Paulus)
Date:
1846
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Credit: Observations on the questions at present pending in the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows : with some suggestions for the settlement of the same / by F.G.P. Neison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    up to the age of 75, when it again rises, and continues higher till the end of life. In the City Districts, from the age of 24 to 44, the sickness is also higher than in the Town Districts; but from 45 to 57 the rate in both dis- tricts differs but little. After 57 years of age to the end of life, there is a much higher rate of sickness in the Town than in the City Districts. Sickness will be found to follow to some extent the same law with regard to the influence of locality, that was observed to prevail in respect to mortality ; being least in the Rural Districts, and increasing in amount in the other districts ; but it will be observed that the relation of cause and effect generally supposed to exist between sickness and mortality is not here manifested—in fact, the highest ratio of sickness is sometimes found associated with a favourable rate of mortality. In order to shew, however, the merits of this hypothesis for the general results of the three districts, a table is subjoined shewing the increase per cent, in the rate of mortality in the Town and City Districts above the Rural, also the increased rate of sick- ness in the same district at the corresponding ages. TABLE II. Ages. Increased Mortality per Cent, above the Rural Districts in the Increased Sickness per Cent, above the Rural Districts in the Town Districts. City Districts. Town Districts. City Districts. 20 27‘6008 12-7200 2-1104 32-7650 30 5*4852 30-5204 0-4684 26-3338 40 20-4517 75-7842 18-6560 37-3419 50 35*5833 61-6666 60-7220 49-9182 60 51*5277 41-0185 27-5130 16-7200 70 43-2990 26-7248 9-19*6 29-8191 Abundant evidence in addition to this is furnished out of the present materials illustrative of this point; for ex- ample, labourers, although influenced by the most fa- vourable rate of mortality, are found to be subject to as high an amount of sickness as the general average; and so also are some other occupations, in which the rate of mortality is also favourable, found subject to a rate of sickness much above the average. Again : the sickness among the sixteen trades formerly