A report on the sanitary condition of the Army : particularly during the late war with Russia / by a non-commissioner.

  • Non-Commissioner.
Date:
[1858]
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Credit: A report on the sanitary condition of the Army : particularly during the late war with Russia / by a non-commissioner. 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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    very unequally to the aggregate; for butchers, poulterers, fishmongers, shopkeepers, and merchants, have died at the rate of only 15 to 16 in the 1,000 ; while tailors, and weavers, shoemakers, printers and compositors have succumbed at the rate of from 20 to 23 per 1,000 ; wine-merchants, publicans, waiters, porters and messengers, at the rate of from 24 to 26 per 1,000; blacksmiths and gas-fitters, painters and glaziers, dyers, bargemen and watermen, at from 28 to 30 in the 1,000; cabmen, draymen, ostlers, car- men, and stablekeepers, at the rate of 31 in the 1,000; clerks and needlewomen, at from 34 to 35 in the 1,000; and, lastly, the hard-working classes of carpenters, masons, and labourers, at from 43 to 45 in the 1,000. These figures may not be expressive of the exact influence of the occupations on the mortality of the several classes, because it is impos- sible to eliminate all sources of error, but they represent nearly enough the general fact, that there is a great difference in the vitality of the several classes, for the well fed butcher and the prosperous merchant die in far less proportion than do those who are more exposed to the rough usages of life; and then again there seems to be something about the close occupation of clerks and needlewomen that makes them especially susceptible of disease.” “ If we turn to the other modes of testing this matter, we shall find that while in all London the mean age at death among adult males is a little less than 51 years, each class has its own particular longevity. The merchant, shopkeeper, and domestic servant, will live to be nearly 57 years of age; the butcher, poulterer, and fishmonger, to be about 53. Most of the other classes will reach from the age of 50 to 52 ; though the painter and dyer, the coster- monger and hawker, the bargeman and waterman, survive only from 48 to 49; and, lastly, the printer and compositor live to but 45; and the baker and confectioner to only 42.’’