Foul air and fever, as cause and effect, exemplified in the sanitary condition of BedfordHamilton, Adams & Company, 1854 - 16페이지 |
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17 per thousand 20.0 per thousand 39 living 41 living 50 living Act of Parliament annual mortality annual saving average mortality belonging to Bedford Board of Guardians cent cities and towns class of diseases cottages country districts deaths from fever deaths in Bedford deaths of persons diseases and deaths Divine Providence drainage dwellings endemic England and Wales excess of mortality excessive mortality fact favourable to Bedford five parishes fraction in 1000 healthy districts hooping-cough human agency last sixteen Laws of Cholera London malaria Measles misery mortality of Bedford Mortality thousand neighbourhood number of deaths persons not belonging polluted atmosphere poor population preventible deaths preventible diseases proportion of deaths public health public institutions rate of mortality rate-payers remarkable respiration result rural districts rural parishes sanitary condition sanitary improvements sanitary measures sanitary reform sanitary regulations Scrofula sewers sickness sixty small-pox sufficient tality typhus fever typhus-fever unhealthy ventilation
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3 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.
3 페이지 - The Maker of the Universe has established certain laws of nature for the planet in which we live, and the weal or woe of mankind depends upon the observance or neglect of those laws.
15 페이지 - But the dwellings under the Association of which we speak have been provided with efficient drainage, and a good supply of water, while the cesspools have been removed ; and the result is, that there has not been a single death from fever in any one of them since they were first opened ; and that a barrier has been placed around them which this mortal pest of our towns and cities has not been able to pass.
10 페이지 - ... exposure to the inclemency of the weather. But there can be no doubt that the habitual respiration of the air of ill-ventilated and gloomy alleys in large towns, as well as that of many manufactories, workhouses, and even schools, is a powerful means of augmenting the hereditary disposition to scrofula, and even of inducing such a disposition de novo.
10 페이지 - the respiration of a deteriorated atmosphere as one of the most powerful causes of tuberculous cachexia " (viz. the constitutional affection which precedes the appearance of consumption.) He says : " If an infant born in perfect health, and of the healthiest parents, be kept in close rooms, in which free ventilation and cleanliness are neglected, a few months will often suffice to induce tuberculous...
16 페이지 - If a man may not harbour a ferocious bull-dog in his alley, is he to keep a noisome ditch running at large there ! — and if he may not hold a main of fighting cocks, is he to keep cholera and typhus in his house! For my part, I cannot...
14 페이지 - ... per 1000. But taking together the whole of the establishments of the Association, which had now come into full occupancy, the total population for the year ending March, 1853, amounted to 1,343. Out of this number there were, during that year, 10 deaths, being at the rate of 7 and a fraction in the 1000.
15 페이지 - ... and the strong. It is the destroyer of parents — not of children ; and is thus one of the great causes of orphanage, and of consequent pauperism. It has its source in no want of food or clothing; in no condition natural to this climate; in no habits peculiar to the people; — one single word comprehends its main condition, filth ; and the main source of this filth is the poison-pit, the cesa-pool.
7 페이지 - Children are remarkably susceptible to all the injurious agents which tend to shorten life, and when such agents exist in full force, the mortality in early life becomes excessive. In Manchester, for instance, which presents the low mean age at death of 18...
14 페이지 - ... now the results so far exceed reasonable expectation, as to be almost beyond belief. Yet they rest on the clearest evidence of facts.