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convey, however, a faint idea of the poverty brought upon 

 whole families by this epidemic, since, for every death there 

 have been from 15 to 18 persons afflicted, and consequently 

 out of work for a long period, and requiring several months 

 for convalescence. It also leaves those who have been at- 

 tacked predisposed to other complaints ; and many registered 

 as cases of pneumonia, gastritis, enteritis, cephalitis, and 

 inflammation, are those who have survived the original com- 

 plaint, and been carried off by these latter, as sequels of the 

 primary attack. The numbers who died of typhus in the years 

 1841, 1840, 1839, and 1838, were, in Leeds and Sheffield, 

 281, 290, 257, and 333,— total 1,181 cases. In Halifax, 

 Huddersfield, and Wakefield, they were 254, 260, 215, and 

 197, — total 926 ; the difference in the districts compared 

 being only 64 per annum. These numbers, for typhus, may 

 appear small in comparison with phthisis, but the fatality of 

 this disease is as great in these districts, in comparison with 

 the population, as in the metropolis ; being in the latter in 

 1841, 334 to every 500,000 living, while more than 500 died 

 out of the 500,000 in the Yorkshire towns named. It appears, 

 therefore, that there is more typhus fever in the Yorkshire 

 towns than in London, but that there is equally as much, 

 or very nearly so, in the more healthy districts of Hud- 

 dersfield and Halifax, as in Leeds and Sheffield, — a medical 

 fact of great importance, to which I shall again refer. 



Pneumonia, and other inflammatory diseases of the lungs, 

 are prolific sources of death. During the years 1841, 1840, 

 1839, and 1838, in Leeds and Sheffield, the deaths from 

 pneumonia were nearly twice as many as in Wakefield, 

 Huddersfield, and Halifax, even with 8,220 additional 

 population. 



The few deaths from other chest diseases, as laryngitis, 

 quinsey, bronchitis, pleurisy, hydrothorax, asthma, and un- 

 named diseases, seem to be about equal in both districts. 



