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the healthy districts, during the four years, was 850, or 

 about 212 annually; and this, it is to be remembered, with 

 the additional population of 8,220. The whole number of 

 deaths from consumption, in all the towns compared, are, 

 during four years, 8,418, or about 2,000 a year. It is to 

 be remarked that consumption depopulates these districts, 

 not of the old and very young, but of those in the flower 

 of life — the fathers and mothers of families — and hence 

 bringing in her train misery and destitution. The greatest 

 number of deaths from this disease taking place between 

 the ages of 20 and 30 ; the next between 30 and 40, and 

 the last between 40 and 50. In Leeds and Sheffield, 

 nearly one-third of the deaths of adults is from consump- 

 tion, (L e. in 1841 and 1840, the only years for which 

 children are registered, and therefore we are able to know 

 the ages,) while in Halifax, Huddersfield, and Wakefield, 

 they constituted about one-fifth of the deaths. By calcula- 

 tion, the deaths in Leeds and Sheffield are, in proportion for 

 the four years, more than those of Halifax and Huddersfield 

 alone, by 1,000, or about 250 a year. 



In comparing Halifax and Huddersfield with each other, 

 it is seen that they are both very similarly affected by this 

 disease. In 1841 there were a few more deaths in Hud- 

 dersfield; in 1840, a few more in Halifax; and in 1839 

 and 1838 they were nearly the same in both districts^ 

 Comparing Sheffield and Leeds, the deaths are always 

 more in proportion in the former than in the latter place, 

 owing to consumption being excited by the trade of grind- 

 ing, and which will be named in the sequel. 



Typhus fever is another terrible scourger of the human 

 race. In the five Yorkshire manufacturing towns compared, 

 2,107 died in the four years, being about one-fourth of those 

 who died from consumption, and about one-twelfth of the 

 whole deaths of adults. The number of deaths by typhus 



