Deaths in the 3rd Quarter 15,221 17,080 11,720
Since the epidemic of 1847, which was not unfairly called "the Irish fever," there has been no such extensive and fatal outbreak of typhus or relapsing fever in England, Scotland or Ireland. The fever deaths rose somewhat in Ireland and in Glasgow in 1851-53, the type of disease being relapsing and typhus. In London there was a considerable increase of typhus in 1856, at the end of the Crimean War. From 1861 to 1867 there was a considerable epidemic of the same fever in England and Scotland (not much of it in Ireland until 1864), the chief centres in England having been the Lancashire towns, Preston, Manchester, Accrington, Chorley, Salford and Blackburn, and the occasion of it the "cotton famine" of the American Civil War[396]. Greenock was the chief seat of typhus in 1863-64 in Scotland; indeed, in the whole kingdom, its death-rate from that cause was approached by that of Liverpool only. Fevers had been very mortal there in the epidemic of 1847 (it is said 353 deaths); in the next fever-period they rose as follows[397]:
This epidemic was more easily dealt with than those of the same kind before it. Very large sums were subscribed by the wealthy, of which, indeed, a considerable balance remained undistributed. Rawlinson, as engineer, and Villiers, as Minister, devised extensive relief works, in the form of main drainage for the distressed Lancashire towns, the whole cost being defrayed eventually by the municipalities themselves. The following table, from Murchison, shows the admissions for typhus to the fever hospitals of various towns, subsequently to the great epidemic of 1847-48. The first rise in London was in 1856; the next rise, which was somewhat prolonged, coincided with the epidemic in Lancashire.
London Edin. Glasgow Glasgow Dundee Aberdeen Cork Fever Royal Royal Fever Royal Royal Fever Year Hosp. Infirm. Infirm. Hosp. Infirm. Infirm. Hosp.
1849 155 -- 342 -- -- -- -- 1850 130 -- 382 -- -- -- -- 1851 68 -- 919 -- -- -- -- 1852 204 -- 1293 -- -- -- -- 1853 408 -- 1551 -- -- -- -- 1854 337 -- 760 -- -- -- -- 1855 342 -- 385 -- -- -- -- 1856 1062 -- 385 -- -- -- -- 1857 274 -- 314 -- -- -- -- 1858 15 -- 175 -- 17 -- -- 1859 48 -- 175 -- 128 -- -- 1860 25 -- 229 -- 67 -- -- 1861 86 -- 509 -- 129 -- 116 1862 1827 14 780 -- 54 -- 272 1863 1309 74 1286 -- 236 379 (4 mos.) 692 1864 2493 212 2150 -- 264 811 1021 1865 1950 447 2334 1154 891 422 791 1866 1760 847 1055 384 706 167 247 1867 1396 303 761 795 225 68 124 1868 1964 280 620 1023 502 78 245 1869 1259 259 1430 2023 402 170 136 1870 631 287 947 702 232 61 165 1871 411 101 418 511 257 3 397