Proceedings of the British Association, 



455 



Dr. Laycock found that the most sickly and injurious parts of the 

 city of York were those which were built on the lowest levels ; and he 

 presented the following table, which will be found to embody the princi- 

 pal particulars connected with the health of towns to which the attention 

 of statisticians has been directed. 



From 1839 to 

 1844. 



50 



43 

 33 



0) 

 S3 13 

 .2 3 

 «3 m • 



IM 



27 



40 

 63 



60 S3 «5 



5 3 & 



? « 1 a> 



i 0) ° be 

 « T3 n (S 



Ph «m <D i« 

 OT3 O 



17-6 



200 

 23-18 



S3 o> 



s 



cs g as 



a ° a 

 ~2§ 



Inhabitants to one 

 death annually. 



a . 



co'S S 



All 

 causes 



Epide- 

 mics. 



Pulmo- 

 nary dis- 

 ease. 



Best drained "J 

 and ventilated J- 

 parishes, ) 



Intermediate, ... 



Worst, 



36-31 



28*37 

 24-14 



38 60 



28*71 

 16-12 



51-43 



40-80 

 33*97 



323-1 



303'4 

 176-0 



277-23 



235-23 

 158-33 



12-92 



21-73 

 23-41 





34-00 



51-07 

 70 46 



Dr. Laycock stated that he had investigated the records of the plagues 

 and epidemics which had devastated York in the Middle Ages, from 

 the corporation records and from the ecclesiastical registers, and had 

 found that the localities which are now the most unhealthy, were those 

 in which epidemics proved most fatal in ancient times. He illustrated 

 this by the history of the sweating sickness in 1550, of the plague in 

 1640, and of the recent cholera. 



Saturday. 



Mr. Felkin read a paper on the statistics of the Hosiery manufactured 

 by machinery in the United Kingdom, compiled from an actual census 

 taken under his direction in the present year. He stated that before 

 the age of Elizabeth, stockings were either knitted of coarse woollen 

 thread or cut ou£ of linen and silk tissue. Towards the close of the 

 sixteenth eentury the Rev. W. Lee succeeded in producing the stocking- 

 frame, and his ingenuity was appreciated by Queen Elizabeth, who visited 

 him at his lodgings, and accepted specimens of his productions. Her 

 kinsman, Lord Hunsdon, entered into a kind" of partnership with Lee, and 

 one of the Tudor family became the first stocking-maker's apprentice. 

 James I. refused to follow the enlightened policy of Elizabeth ; aud Lee, 

 neglected in England, accepted the offers made by the French minister 

 Sully ; he established a manufactory at Rouen, but after the murder of 

 Henry IV. the patronage he had received was withdrawn, and he died of 

 a broken heart. The stocking-frame spread rapidly over England, France, 



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