GEOGRAPHY OF DEVONSHIRE AND CONSUMPTION. 87 
59-92; Bundle Stone, 74-35 ; Tavistock, 49-36 ; Endsleigh, 52-80. 
In varied climates the rainy season is that of health. The Devonian 
region is healthier than the Carboniferous (as in North Devon also). 
Eut why the large death-rate of women in Dunderton, 4*10; 
Bradstone, 4-6; Thrushelton, 4*1; Lamerton, 3 62? Is it that 
the young girls and women are unduly exposed in open sheds, 
sitting, without sufficient exercise, picking over the ore ? Mr. 
Gilbert Worthy, of Tavistock, writes me, attributing the Phthisis 
to " innutrition, and especially after other diseases At the 
time of illness, the poor are badly fed, and the rooms badly ven- 
tilated." Eut bad food, and ill-ventilated huts, are as existent on 
the moorland, with its small death-rate. Mr. Worthy remarks 
that a great many cases of Phthisis in the Whitchurch district seem 
to be hereditary. The death-rate of women in many parishes is 
in great excess, above the mean excess of women over men, in 
England and Wales. Does the more out-of-door life preserve the 
men ? Do they get better food than do the women ? Does the 
moderate stimulant add to the vital power ? or does the tobacco ? 
Have men a more varied life, and less depressions ? Can any local 
causes (mines, &c.) be discovered, affecting the women ? 
TAELE III. 
DEATHS FROM CONSUMPTION IN DARTMOOR PRISON, 
DURING THE TEN YEARS, 1866-75. 
Supplied by Dr. Power. 
Date. 
Number 
Total Number 
Deatbs from 
of Prisoners. 
of Deatbs. 
Consumption. 
Remarks. 
1 866 
627 
13 
I 
1867 
613 
8 
2 
1868 
636 
10 
2 
1869 
739 
7 
3 
1870 
881 
14 
8 
1871 
902 
5 
2 
1872 
958 
13 
8 
3 
1873 
943 
I 
1874 
934 
7 
I 
1875 
943 
8 
3 
Totals. 
8,176 
93 
26 
Means. 
817.6 
9-3 
2.6 
