after 40, a great many more persons attain the advanced ages in the Malvern locality, than in the rest of England.[1]
Diseases.—It is not the object of the present communication to embrace a minute account of the diseases prevalent in the district. The following is a classification of those diseases treated in the practice of the Malvern Dispensary, during a period of four years (from 1830 to 1834). The benefits of this institution are conferred upon poor persons, not entitled to parish relief; in Great Malvern and the adjacent parishes, both in the western and eastern divisions. Omitting all surgical diseases, and complaints of a local or very trivial nature, there were admitted in this period—
| Diseases of the organs of digestion | 153 |
| respiration | 179 |
| circulation | 7 |
| of the brain and nervous system | 47 |
| urinary organs | 2 |
| generative organs | 42 |
| Febrile diseases | 64 |
| Rheumatic | 28 |
| Dropsical | 11 |
| Cutaneous | 45 |
| —— | |
| Total | 578 |
- ↑ I have ascertained that the number of persons now (Jan. 1835,) resident in Great Malvern, and who are 70 years of age and upwards, is sixty; of these about 12 or 14 persons have not resided in the parish more than 12 or 14 years, so that subtracting these, the number which may be taken to represent those born in the parish, may be estimated at between 46 and 50.
By a reference to the parish register I find that the number of baptisms in the 10 years from 1755 to 1764 inclusive, was 192; now if 10,000 births (vide table 7) give 2562 persons alive at 70, 192 births will give 49, thus shewing that in the parish of Great Malvern, the actual numbers do not vary much from the results shewn in the tabular details.
