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Chapter V: Pecuniary Burdens Created by the Neglect of Sanitary

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MEASURES:— 188

Cost of remedies for sickness and of mortality which is
preventible 188

Average ages of death of the heads of families of widows and
orphans chargeable to the Manchester, Whitechapel, Bethnal
Green, Strand, Oakham and Uppingham, Alston with
Garrigill, and Bath unions 190

Table of the number of widows and dependent orphans
chargeable in eight unions 191

Table of the chief cause of death producing widowhood and
orphanage in eight unions 192

Detailed instances of the causes of widowhood and orphanage
in Alston with Garrigill 193

Examples of the sanitary effects of superior care in the
residences and the places of work of labourers—in the
Reeth union, North York, 196; in Gwennap, Illogan, and
Camborne, Cornwall, 198; in Great Bradford and Horton,
West York 199

Comparison of a young population under favourable and a
mature population under unfavourable circumstances 200

Effects of noxious physical agencies on the moral and
intellectual condition of the working classes 202

Jurisprudential measures for the prevention of deaths from
accidents 203

Cost of disease as compared with cost of prevention,
instances of in Glasgow and Dundee 206

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