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The General Assueance Advocate.
in his deductions , seems to have neglected a very important element in the mortality of the various trades which he enumerates , namely , the duration of the hours of labour , which might essentially modify his conclusions ; but the passage to which we wish to draw particular attention is to be found at page 59 , and is as follows : — " It so happens that the class of labourers in large cities is subject to a very high rate of mortality . "
This is in reference more particularly to Liverpool ; but we conceive that it has a general application , and the consideration of it evolves a very important and startling conclusion , attributing a far greater influence to locality than Mr . Neison seems inclined to allow . Let it be borne in mind that the labourers decrease the mortality of the rural districts , and then consider what this sentence of Mr . Neison ' s entitles
us to presume—that the labourers increase the mortality of town districts ; and what inference can be drawn but this , that while other classes than labourers approximate in healthfuluess and longevity in both town and country , the condition of bodily exertion , which , in the pure air of the country , increases the expectation of life—in the vitiated air of the towns decreases it . The town and country tradesman experience but a comparatively trifling difference ; while in the country
labourer , life is at its maximum of vigour and duration ; in the town labourer , at its minimum . Let it be considered that while the town tradesmen , for the most part , live partially free from the pestilential atmospheres of the courts and alleys , and are comparatively healthy , the town labourers , who are exposed to their worst effects , are at the lowest scale of existence , although the like occupations in the country
produce just the opposite results ; and we shall be entitled , without at all disparaging the effects of occupation , to refer such a vast amount of influence to local position as will render an efficient sanitary system one of the greatest possible benefits . Whether the exertion of the
town labourers , to some extent , protects them from the influence of vitiated atmospheres , or whether ii increases tbe effect of the poisonous exhalations in which they exist , does not appear with certainty from any data to which we have access . If the former , as is most probable , the influence of locality must be even greater than we have thought ourselves entitled to consider it ; but , however that may be , the subject
is worthy the attention of the statistician and philosopher , in whose hands we hope the facts and deductions we have endeavoured to point out may , if traced to their ultimate causes , produce valuable additions to the science of vital statistics .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The General Assueance Advocate.
in his deductions , seems to have neglected a very important element in the mortality of the various trades which he enumerates , namely , the duration of the hours of labour , which might essentially modify his conclusions ; but the passage to which we wish to draw particular attention is to be found at page 59 , and is as follows : — " It so happens that the class of labourers in large cities is subject to a very high rate of mortality . "
This is in reference more particularly to Liverpool ; but we conceive that it has a general application , and the consideration of it evolves a very important and startling conclusion , attributing a far greater influence to locality than Mr . Neison seems inclined to allow . Let it be borne in mind that the labourers decrease the mortality of the rural districts , and then consider what this sentence of Mr . Neison ' s entitles
us to presume—that the labourers increase the mortality of town districts ; and what inference can be drawn but this , that while other classes than labourers approximate in healthfuluess and longevity in both town and country , the condition of bodily exertion , which , in the pure air of the country , increases the expectation of life—in the vitiated air of the towns decreases it . The town and country tradesman experience but a comparatively trifling difference ; while in the country
labourer , life is at its maximum of vigour and duration ; in the town labourer , at its minimum . Let it be considered that while the town tradesmen , for the most part , live partially free from the pestilential atmospheres of the courts and alleys , and are comparatively healthy , the town labourers , who are exposed to their worst effects , are at the lowest scale of existence , although the like occupations in the country
produce just the opposite results ; and we shall be entitled , without at all disparaging the effects of occupation , to refer such a vast amount of influence to local position as will render an efficient sanitary system one of the greatest possible benefits . Whether the exertion of the
town labourers , to some extent , protects them from the influence of vitiated atmospheres , or whether ii increases tbe effect of the poisonous exhalations in which they exist , does not appear with certainty from any data to which we have access . If the former , as is most probable , the influence of locality must be even greater than we have thought ourselves entitled to consider it ; but , however that may be , the subject
is worthy the attention of the statistician and philosopher , in whose hands we hope the facts and deductions we have endeavoured to point out may , if traced to their ultimate causes , produce valuable additions to the science of vital statistics .