"The Vital Statistics of Sheffield" by G.Calvert Holland, 1843

The volume of "Vital Statistics" was produced at the suggestion  of The Town Trustees of Sheffield, who also paid for some of the work.  The work was undertaken by Dr Calvert Holland who is described as "Physician Extraordinary to the Sheffield General Infirmary".

There is an interesting article here on the author George Calvert Holland, and an obituary (reprinted from the Sheffield Independent) in The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1865.
 
The chapters of the "Vital Statistics" cover many aspects ranging from a general description of the town, through the rate of increase in the population, descriptions of the major trades, Friendly societies and 'secret orders', education, charities, etc.

Four extracts have been posted here, all from Chapter 1 the "General Description of the Town and Neighbourhood", relating to the Plants, Birds, Animals and Fish found in and around Sheffield.  Click here to see the posts for 'Calvert Holland'.

The book is available as a PDF of scanned pages, and as OCRed plain text from Google Books.  The extracted text has been cleaned-up from the OCRed text.