Public Health Address (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Public Health Address It will be my duty to submit to you, as well as I may, from my own point of view, the present position of Sanitary Science, for its future practical advancement. A Stationary Death-rate, with a Largely Increased Population, a Reduced Death-rate. - It has been recently put forward by a gentleman who held this chair at Liverpool, that notwithstanding all the expense incurred by local authorities for sanitary works, there has been little alteration in the death-rate during the last forty years. In great part this is true, and I may show why it is so, but the figures are misleading, for with an increase of the population during that period, from about fifteen to twenty-two millions, with extensive conditions of overcrowding of dwellings of the wage classes, and of cottages which formerly served for one family, but which have now frequently one family to each room, there have been augmentations of death-rates at many points, insufficiently countervailed by reductions at others. It will be found that a stationary death-rate is, relatively a largely increased population, a reduced death-rate. But the statement is, as I shall show, so couched as unjustly to depreciate our increased power of sanitation. Then we have had the doctrines of Malthus raised against us, and it is held forth that by increasing the population we shall by division diminish its subsistence fund and intensify misery. Those doctrines were pressed for application when the population was one-third what it now is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.