Report ... May, 1855 |
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aggregate almshouse American Foreign annexed annual average Baths and Wash-Houses causes Census of Boston cent cholera citizens City of Boston classes column Commonwealth comparative diarrhoea disease dwellings Dysentery embraces England epidemic erected Erysipelas establishments EXCESS OF MALE Exhibiting the number facts families females filth foregoing foreign origin foreign parentage foreign population George Adams give the number greater Inhab inhabitants Ireland Irish JOSEPH STORY June labor last five less Lewis Kent Liverpool London Lord Palmerston male births Male Fem married metropolis Metropolitan Buildings Model Lodging Houses months Moth Fath native nearly number of deaths parents period pestilence POPULATION BY WARDS population of Boston portion present proportion prosperity rate of mortality Registration Report residents SAMUEL F sanitary condition sanitary neglect South Boston street Suffolk Suffolk County taking the Census tion towns Unknown voters ward seven ward six Washington Village whole number
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102 페이지 - Lord Palmerston would, therefore, suggest that the best course which the people of this country can pursue, to deserve that the further progress of the cholera should be stayed, will be, to employ the interval that will elapse between the present time and the beginning of next spring, in planning and executing measures by which those portions of their towns and cities which are inhabited by the poorest classes, and which, from the nature of things, must most need purification and improvement, may...
101 페이지 - One of those laws connects health with the absence of those gaseous exhalations which proceed from overcrowded human beings, or from decomposing substances, whether animal or vegetable ; and those same laws render sickness the almost inevitable consequence of exposure to those noxious influences. But it has at the same time pleased Providence to place it within the power of man to make such arrangements as...
80 페이지 - One cellar was reported by the police to be occupied nightly as a sleeping apartment, by thirty-nine persons. In another, the tide had risen so high that it was necessary to approach the bedside of a patient by means of a plank, which was laid from one stool to another ; while the dead body of an infant was actually sailing about the room in its coffin.
93 페이지 - The first efforts in this direction were those of benevolent societies, like the Metropolitan Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, and the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes.
67 페이지 - Parliament has legislated on the conclusion, submitted with an accumulation of demonstrable evidence, that the causes of epidemic, endemic, and contagious diseases are removable, and that the neglect on the part of the constituted authorities to remove such causes, as far as they are obviously within their control, is a punishable offence. The foundation which the legislature has thus laid for the physical, and consequently the moral improvement of the people is recognized.
66 페이지 - Pestilential fevers furnish no exception of this remark. The means of preventing them are as much under the power of human reason and industry as the means of preventing the evils of lightning and common fire. I am so satisfied of the truth of this opinion that I look for the time when our courts of law shall punish cities and villages for...
101 페이지 - ... substances, whether animal or vegetable ; and these same laws render sickness the almost inevitable consequence of exposure to those noxious influences. But it has at the same time pleased Providence to place it within the power of man to make such arrangements as will prevent or disperse such exhalations, so as to render them harmless, and it is the duty of man to attend to those laws of nature, and to exert the faculties which Providence has thus given to him for his welfare.
102 페이지 - ... classes, and which, from the nature of things, must most need purification and improvement, may be freed from those causes and sources of contagion which, if allowed to remain, will infallibly breed pestilence, and be fruitful in death, in spite of all the prayers and fastings of an united but inactive nation. When man has done his utmost for his own safety, then is the time to invoke the blessing of Heaven to give effect to his exertions.
37 페이지 - The number of marriages in a nation perhaps fluctuates independently of external causes, but it is a fair deduction from the facts that the Marriage Returns in England point out periods of prosperity little less distinctly .than the funds measure the hopes and fears of the money market.
35 페이지 - ... births was only 81 boys to 100 girls, and during the seven years, 1852-58, it was 91 boys to 100 girls, the whole number represented being 1,167 illegitimates. It is proper to say that in the deductions above, we have discarded all those whose sex was not stated in the returns. In 1855 we stated " that the sexes are much nearer equally divided in children born out of wedlock ; still, in most countries where such births are of comparatively common occurrence, there is a small excess of males ;...