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80 THE IZ^DIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION.
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: a few weeks , and thousands of persons fled tnence to Tynemouth for safety" where only four fatal cases were originated .
" The total , expense of these precautionary measures was under two hundred pounds . _During the previous epidemic of 1849 ,
Tynemouth lost four hundred and sixty-three , and it was calculated that the cost of that epidemic to the rate-payers would ammint to
upwards of thirteen thousand pounds . Again , during the American cholera in 1849-50 , the disease broke out with violence at a
workhouse two miles out of Baltimore ; and after very careful examination , a great accumulation of filth was discovered in a marshy spot outside
the north walls . All those who were attacked occupied rooms facing the nuisance ; all on the southern side escaped . The place
was cleansed , and the epidemic ceased . The converse occurred at Newcastle ; where the one clean otthe barracksescapedwhile
cholera raged with violence all around sp , . In Edinburg , h , fever , and disease among the lower classes have been much reduced since the
closes have been thoroughly flushed and washed with lime once a year " The . " town of Glasgow occupies a very unsatisfactory position in
regard to mortality and sanitary , arrangement . " The mortality , calculated on the census of 1851-was thirty-one in a thousand
and in 1857 , fifty-four per cent , of the total mortality was among , children under _irve years of age ! Of these , one hundred and
nineteen out of every thousand die yearly in Glasgow ; while in Perth , children at the same age only die at the rate of fifty-five
out of every thousand , or less than one half the Glasgow proportion . The Registrar-General of Scotland hoped that "
improved sanitary arrangements , combined with the education of the lower class of females in household duties , would reduce the
infantile mortality in Glasgow to nearly the same ratio as in Perth , and by that means alone save annually to _Glasgotv about three thousand
lives" " The results , domestic , social , and pecuniary , involved in that frightful waste , would form a study in themselves . "
In London , in 1853-4 , a large southern district was supplied with two different qualities of waterone tolerably goodthe other
exceedingly foul . At the end of _. the , epidemic period it was , " found that the cholera mortality supplied by the bad water had been three
and a half times as great as in the houses supplied by the better water . " The latter companybefore changing its source of supply
had lost one hundred and twenty , -five out of every ten thousand , tenants in 1848-9 . In 1853-4 they lost only thirty-seven in every _,
ten thousand . Our last extract shall be one particularly applicable to the case of
or women lodging who 1 houses often on have their the own power estates of p , lanning or on those and possessed building cottages by their
husbands . It refers to London , but the same results would be proportionably obtained in country towns , and even in the country
itself . " An Association for Improving the Dwellings of the In-
80 The Iz^Dies' Sanitary Association.
80 THE IZ _^ DIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/8/
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