On phthisis and the supposed influence of climate : being an analysis of statistics of consumpton in this part of Australia : with remarks on the cause of the increase of that disease in Melbourne / by William Thomson.

Date:
1879
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Credit: On phthisis and the supposed influence of climate : being an analysis of statistics of consumpton in this part of Australia : with remarks on the cause of the increase of that disease in Melbourne / by William Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The total increase of persons born in Victoria during the seventeen years between 1854 and 1871 was nearly 300,000. All of these must have been born since 1854, and consequently not one could in 1871 have been more than seventeen years of age. The only Victorians who could, at the census of 1871, by any possibility have been over seventeen years of age are those—amounting to about 30,000—enumerated in 1854, and of these it is not at all likely that more than 20,000 were alive and in the colony in 1871. It is, therefore, certain that the number of Victorian-born persons at phthisical ages living in the colony in 1871 bore a very small proportion indeed to the whole number of Victorians contained in the population. To make this part more complete the following details are added; for as a demon- stration of the proofs of a progressive increase of phthisis among the native race hinges on the proportion of deaths therefrom to the numbers growing up, minute and careful cal- culation is required where exact numbers are unattainable.