Population statistics
These statistics are intended to help you place the changes in conditions in context. It is also worth considering other statistics noted elsewhere in this section.
Source 1
| Year | England and Wales (millions | ) Scotland (millions) | Ireland (millions) | Britain (millions) | Birth Rate per 1,000 | Death Rate per 1,000 |
| 1831 | 13.8 | 2.3 | 7.8 | 23.9 | 36.6 | 23.4 |
| 1841 | 15.9 | 2.6 | 8.2 | 26.7 | 32.2 | 21.6 |
| 1851 | 18.0 | 2.9 | 6.6 | 27.5 | 34.3 | 22.0 |
Source 2
| 1837-41 | population growth | housing growth rate |
| Glasgow | 37% | 18.5% |
| Manchester | 47% | 15% |
| Bradford | 78% | 12% |
Figures from Chadwick’s Sanitary Report, 1842
Public Health in the Industrial Revolution
Impact of new machines – Workhouses in Bradford and Leeds – Typhoid outbreaks 1830 – 1836 – Cholera, 1831 Outbreak – Poor Law Commission [1834, Report 1837] – Poor Law Commission 1835 – Bradford Woolcombers Report, 1837 – Report on the conditions of workers in Leeds, 1842 – Report on the sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes, Chadwick 1842 – Health of Towns Association, 1844 – Health in Bradford in the mid 1840’s – Health in Manchester, 1844 – Public Health Act, 1848 – Working Conditions in Bradford, 1850 – Census figures: UK Population statistics 1831 – 1851 – John Snow’s work on Cholera, 1854 – Nightingale School of Nursing – Bradford Sewage Works, 1862 – Louis Pasteur: Germ Theory, 1865 – Second Reform Act [External] – Royal Sanitary Commission, 1869 – The Public Health Act, 1872 [External] – Public Health Act, 1875 [External] – Artizans and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875 [External] – Tuberculosis Germ identified by Robert Koch, 1882 – Cholera Germ identified, 1883 – Health in Bradford, Margaret McMillan’s Report, 1890 – Report into the health of Children in Bradford, 1907 – Timeline of Public Health over time – Medicine and Treatments c1350-2018 – Themes in Medical History
Medicine Through time
Resources for Medicine Through Time – Prehistoric Medicine – Ancient Egyptian Medicine – Ancient Greek Medicine – Medicine in the Roman Empire – Medieval Medicine – Renaissance Medicine – Public Health in the Industrial Revolution – Fight against infectious disease – Modern Medicine