On the Best Modes of Representing Accurately, by Statistical Returns, the Duration of Life, and the Pressure and Progress of the Causes of Mortality Amongst Different Classes of the Community, and Amongst the Populations of Different Districts and Countries

Chadwick, Edwin

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“…In a lecture for the Statistical Society on causes of death, based on the findings of his controversial report and a number of foreign cases, Chadwick described the filthy conditions in which the proletariat lived and worked, and concluded that 'the moral atmosphere under which a population is so situated is as offensive and depressing and pestilential as the physical atmosphere under which it suffers; and it is grievous to experience, and melancholy to contemplate' . 16 And to think that Chadwick began his presentation by announcing that would be explaining the best way to set up a register of deaths. On further reflection, the British statisticians were preoccupied with the moral decay that they associated with impoverishment.…”

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On waves of passion: London 1860

Randeraad¹

2020

States and Statistics in the Nineteenth Century

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2020

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“…Such information was collected in local censuses, which had been periodically undertaken during the 18th century, e.g. in Carlisle, Glasgow, Chester, Northampton and on the continent in Montpelier and Geneva (Chadwick 1844, Greenwood 1946. These studies seem to have been undertaken for the life insurance companies.…”

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“…The conflict of views on the measurement of vitality between public health and actuarial science is illustrated in Chadwick's debate with F.G.P. Neison at the Royal Statistical Society (Chadwick 1844, Neison 1844). Neison is not a well known figure in the history of public health.…”

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5. Vital comparisons: the social construction of mortality measurement

Bartley¹,

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Blane³

1997

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…These reforms often demanded nothing less than the advancement of British science and building technology to complete humankind's mastery of nature and banish the risks that ignorance entailed. Newspaper reporting on the personal experiences of each of these types of disaster complemented the growth of statistics on death and injury that resulted in new classes of industrial accidents (Cooter 1997;Chadwick: 1843b). The River Dee bridge first opened to local freight traffic on 4 November 1846, following its examination and approval by an inspector from the government's Board of Trade.…”

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Iron, Engineering and Architectural History in Crisis: Following the Case of the River Dee Bridge Disaster, 1847

Taylor

2013

Architectural Histories

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This paper establishes relations—historical, material and evidential connections—between two responses to a ‘crisis’. The first features in the history of industrialised iron construction, specifically period reporting on the spectacular collapse of the River Dee bridge in Cheshire, England, in 1847. The second response highlights a blind spot in the historiography of modern architecture. Robert Stephenson became suspect when his cast- and wrought-iron railway bridge across the River Dee failed, resulting in death and injury and continuing uncertainty as to its cause. At the time the incident sparked national furore, setting off a coroner’s inquest followed by a Royal Commission into the perilous state of Britain’s bridges. The inquest jury concluded no one was to blame; rather, it was an accident brought about by use of iron, an uncertain and “treacherous” metal. This explanation has failed to satisfy contemporary materials specialists who have reopened the case, albeit under different terms of reference. The paper examines the initial verdict, firstly, in view of aspects of the social context of evidence and proof prevailing at the inquest and, secondly, given historical writing on iron construction whereby the inquest’s seemingly imprecise and arbitrary judgment is taken as sign of the subsequent progress of engineering as a practical and moral science. This paper adopts the leitmotif of ‘crisis’ to highlight a parallel history that challenges progressivist narratives of industrialised iron construction and modernist architecture. It invites reflection on the provenance and unstable forms of agency associated with engineering as a propositional and socially contingent enterprise

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On the Best Modes of Representing Accurately, by Statistical Returns, the Duration of Life, and the Pressure and Progress of the Causes of Mortality Amongst Different Classes of the Community, and Amongst the Populations of Different Districts and Countries

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On waves of passion: London 1860

On waves of passion: London 1860

5. Vital comparisons: the social construction of mortality measurement

Iron, Engineering and Architectural History in Crisis: Following the Case of the River Dee Bridge Disaster, 1847

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