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154 PHYSICAL TKAINING.
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kingdom ; Glendale and Rothbury , in Northumberland , are the healthiest rural districts . " Between 1840 and 1850 , Glendale and
Uothbury lost annually fifteen out of every thousand of their populationLiverpool killed off thirty-six . This calculation excludes
the the year Irish ; 1847 famin , which e and , if immi thrown gration into , raise the scale the average , would for , by Liverpool reason of
up to thirty-nine in each thousand ! Now , here comes a very noticeable point . " Glendale and Liverpool
occupy , in respect of pulmonary affections , exactly the same relative position they hold in regard to their general death rates . Of the hundred and
five districts to which this inquiry has extended , Liverpool presents the greatestGlendale the smallest average loss by pulmonary disease" Dr .
, Greenhow thinks that the same relation between comparative general and comparative pulmonary mortality holds good of the different
districts of the entire kingdom ; that is to say , —the number of deaths bconsumption afford an accurate test of general insalubrity . The
p y ulmonary death-rate of England and Wales for the septennial period 1848-54 was 569 in every 100 , 000 males of all ages , and
535 in each 100 , 000 females . The pulmonary mortality of males is rather higher than that of females in the country at large . The
female pulmonary mortality is , however , one-eighth more than that of males in the eight healthy districts , the male mortality being
305 , and the female 340 , to 100 , 000 of each sex respectively . It is just the converse in the eight unhealthy townsfor in them the
, male pulmonary death-rate exceeds the female by very nearly oneseventh . The exact numbers are 862 in each 100 , 000 males , and
764 in each 100 , 000 females . Thus the insalubrious influences in these towns act most powerfully upon the male population—a
circumstance which appears to prove that the cause of the unhealthiness of these places does not exclusively consist in the
unwholesomeness of their dwellings . We should translate these statistics thus : where the men are
exposed to the influence of unwholesome employments , they fall a sacrifice in greater proportion than the women ; but in districts
where the men pass all their time out in the open air , and the women are proportionately more confined within doors , the balance
turns the other way . It will be seen , therefore , how invariably the ratio of disease and death follows that of unhealthy physical
influence , and how invariably the particular ratio of scrofulous . disease agrees with that of a diminution of exercise in the open air .
What chance then of prolonged life do young working women of the middle ranks possess , since their avocations are almost invariably
those which tend to confine them to the house , and to a sedentary mode of passing their time ; since they have little scope , and
usually little inclination , for such exercise as young men , even those who are resident in towns , procure ; and since they in general
know little , and care less , about those laws whose observance alone
154 Physical Tkaining.
154 PHYSICAL TKAINING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/10/
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