A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2): From the Extinction of Plague to the Present TimeCreighton, Charles
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A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2): From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time
Creighton, Charles
Epidemics -- Great Britain -- History
--a total of 6011 deaths from fever, nearly all typhus, in eighteen
months. The worst London parishes were Whitechapel and St Pancras, in
which latter the fever-hospital was situated. The high mortality from
fever, which had begun before the 1st of July, 1837, continued into the
year 1839, when the deaths in London (probably including some enteric)
were 1819.
Over all England and Wales, including London, the last six months of 1837
produced 9047 deaths from “typhus,” and the twelve months of 1838, 18,775
deaths, the winter of 1837-38 having been the most fatal period. After
London, the large towns most affected by the epidemic in the latter half
of 1837 were as follows:
Deaths from
typhus in
six months
Liverpool 524
Manchester }
and Salford} 274
Birmingham 75
Bolton 75
Sunderland 72
Leeds 71
Sheffield 68
Bradford 65
Stockport 63
Dudley 54
Abergavenny 53
Wolverhampton 45
Newcastle 44
Wigan 43
Chorley 41
Swansea 36
Halifax 33
Macclesfield 33
Norwich 27
In each of the next two years the number of deaths from typhus in the four
largest towns was as follows:
Typhus Typhus
deaths deaths
in 1838 in 1839
Manchester}
and Salford} 627 416
Liverpool 573 358
Leeds 245 150
Birmingham 123 141
From nearly all the registration districts of England and Wales, deaths
from fever were returned in 1837-39, so that the contagion must have been
very widely spread in town and country[375]. In London the epidemic
declined greatly in 1839, but in many parts of England the deaths
registered as “typhus” were hardly less numerous than in 1838, and in some
country divisions they were more, as if the contagion had taken longer to
reach the villages[376]. One village epidemic in North Devon in the latter
half of the year 1839 had been observed by Dr W. Budd, afterwards of
Bristol:
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