Papers Relating to the Sanitary State of the People of EnglandEyre & Spottiswoode, 1858 - 164 pages |
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Page xx - I could not bear the windows drawn up, and was therefore often obliged to travel on horseback. The leaves of my memorandum-book were often so tainted, that I could not use it till after spreading it an hour or two before the fire. And even my antidote, a vial of vinegar, has after using it in a few prisons, become intolerably disagreeable. I did not wonder that in those journeys many gaolers made excuses and did not go with me into the felons wards.
Page xxiii - In proportion as the male and female populations are severally attracted to in-door branches of industry, in such proportion, other things being equal, their respective death-rates by phthisis are increased.
Page i - Papers relating to the Sanitary State of the People of England ; being the results of an inquiry into the Different Proportions of Death produced by certain diseases in different districts in England...
Page xxi - From my own observations in 1773, 1774, and 1775, 1 was fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom.
Page xxi - I was fully convinced that many more prisoners were destroyed by it than were put to death by all the public executions in the kingdom.* This frequent effect of confinement in prison seems generally understood, and shows how full of emphatical meaning is the curse of a severe creditor, who pronounces his debtor's doom to rot in jail. I believe I have learnt the full import of this sentence...
Page xxxiv - ... infants who should be at the breast are improperly fed or starved, or have their cries of hunger and distress quieted by those various fatal opiates which are in such request at the centers of our manufacturing industry.
Page xiv - So that the consequence of the improvement made by this water company in the interval between the two epidemics, was, that whereas in the epidemic of 1848-9 there had died 1925 of their tenants, there died in the epidemic of 1853-4 only 611; while among the tenants of the rival company (whose supply between the two epidemics had become worse instead of better) the deaths, which in 1848-9 were 2880, had in 1853-54 increased to 347tj.
Page xi - The mucous membrane of the intestinal canal is the excreting surface to which nature directs all the accidental putridities which enter us. Whether they have been breathed, or drunk, or eaten, or sucked up into the blood from the surfaces of foul sores, or directly injected into bloodvessels by the physiological experimenter, there it is that they settle and act. As wine .
Page ix - ... putrefactive process from matters outside the body to matters inside the body ; diseases, of which the very essence is filth ; diseases, which have no local habitation, except where putrefiable air or putrefiable water furnishes means for their rise or propagation ; diseases, against which there may be found a complete security in the cultivation of public and private cleanliness.
Page xiii - The second case relates to the distribution of cholera-deaths during two epidemics in the southern districts of London. These districts (comprising nearly a fifth of the entire population of the metropolis) have been notorious for the great severity with which cholera has visited them on each occasion of its epidemic prevalence in England. During the last invasion these districts were accidentally the seat of a gigantic sanitary experiment ; and a difference in one sanitary condition was seen to...