Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With AppendicesChadwick, Edwin
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With Appendices
Chadwick, Edwin
Housing -- Great Britain; Public health -- Great Britain
It will be observed also that the moral as well as the sanitary
influences have a coincidence in the larger proportion of the
illegitimate births in the worst conditioned districts. In the best
conditioned districts the great majority of illegitimate births belong
almost exclusively to the more dissipated of the labouring classes who
inhabit them.
┌───────────┬────────────────┬───────────────┬────────┬───────────┬──────────┐
│Localities.│ Population. │ Deaths. │ Total │Proportion │Proportion│
│ │ │ │ Deaths │ of Births │of Illegi-│
│ │ │ │of Males│ to │ timate │
│ │ │ │ & │Population.│Births to │
│ │ │ │Females.│ │ Total │
│ │ │ │ │ │ Births. │
├───────────┼───────┬────────┼──────┬────────┼────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│ │Males. │Females.│Males.│Females.│ │ │ │
├───────────┼───────┼────────┼──────┼────────┼────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│ │ │ │ 1 in │ 1 in │ 1 in │ 1 in │ 1 in │
│Broughton │ 1,554│ 2,239│ 44·40│ 89·56│ 63·21│ 36·82│ 51·50│
│Cheetham │ 3,963│ 4,862│ 45·03│ 63·14│ 53·48│ 34·74│ 50·80│
│ and │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ Crumpsall│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│Pendleton │ 5,109│ 5,796│ 40·22│ 49·96│ 44·87│ 25·47│ 12·58│
│Chorlton- │ 12,551│ 15,771│ 30·91│ 47·79│ 38·48│ 26·05│ 32·93│
│ upon- │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│ Medlock │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │
│Hulme │ 12,850│ 13,969│ 37·24│ 38·48│ 37·87│ 23·17│ 24·10│
│Ardwick │ 4,586│ 5,320│ 35·55│ 34·54│ 35·00│ 24·27│ 34·00│
│Salford │ 24,762│ 26,760│ 27·30│ 36·60│ 31·42│ 22·83│ 21·90│
│Manchester │ 79,061│ 84,606│ 26·61│ 30·15│ 28·33│ 26·79│ 19·20│
├───────────┼───────┼────────┼──────┼────────┼────────┼───────────┼──────────┤
│ Total │141,436│ 159,323│ 28·84│ 34·62│ 31·60│ 25·74│ 21·26│
└───────────┴───────┴────────┴──────┴────────┴────────┴───────────┴──────────┘
In the ten registration districts of Leeds the mortality prevalent in
them varies coincidently with their physical condition, and the
recklessness and immorality as shown in the proportion of illegitimate
births, increases in a greater proportion than the mortality; and in
this instance also, as in most others, if the registration were more
accurate, the proportion of both legitimate and illegitimate births
would be still closer to the deaths in the worst conditioned districts.
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