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THE LADIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION. 77
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It will thus be seen tliat of our large towns London was the healthiest classes of , the and Liverpool Liverpool population the most unhealth , the average y . Among adults duration and the of different children life was
together as and foliows clothes , who : — live The dwelt d gentlefolks on in an the better , taking parts thirt of y- of five course the years town ; , the with lives good of food the average
, Descending elder people in being the scale counter of -balanced comforts , we by the find while deaths the tradesmen the of the younger reduced class .
had to twent but y fifteen -two . years In London of average the existence rates were ; widely different working ; though from this latter calculation the , infant mortality was excluded . Of
live those d fift who y-nine survived years fifteen , the years tradesmen of age forty , it was -nine found , and that the the working gentry
proportion classes forty of - ei general ght . But mortality as infant these mortality two sets always of figures forms cannot a large be
compared Between as our if they large belonged towns and to , our a common rural districts term- a most marked istrarGeneralit
sand appeared disproportion die every that , existed out year of in every . the From large million a report towns of inhabitants , of and the onl Reg y _^ twenty nineteen - -seven thousand thou ' s -
three hundred in the rural districts . the In passing 1848 , of the the result Public of these Health prolonged Act , which the inve cities sti is gations app of licable London appeared to and the in
Westminster whole General of Board Eng , land and of Health certain and Wales was metropolitan appointed , except which districts on . app By lication this act from a
and any town with or the district consent may of a cause specified surveys portion , of of the the same ratepayers to be made , may ,
ments issue , orders But for these the orders carrying are into onl effect provisional of the , proposed and require improve to be - y
firming confirmed . the b provisional y Parliament orders . During issued 1850 to thirty , three -one acts towns were passed and places con- , had been
issued and by , the A same separate date act upwards was also of ei passed ghty interment provisional giving power of bodies orders to the in Board
crowde of Health d burial to forbid laces absolutel and to provide y the cemeteries outside the towns over- . The large towns p had alread , begun to make improvements , and the
improved drainage in twenty y streets of Manchester resulted in the annual diminution of the deaths by more than twenty in every one
hundred and ten . That a vast reduction in our annual mortality can be ensured by is
the appeal admitted wise to fact app the ; lication moral and the nature of reasons sanitary alone for laws thoug such in h the united in Christian hands application of Eng men land do not an it
, system ought to is be right and . But generall there y is is admitted also here a a sufficient direct appeal reason to that public a health is
economy dear- It ; is to unequivocall the pocket y even dear of to the the rate individual -payer . ; it Ill is equally very dear
The Ladies' Sanitary Association. 77
THE LADIES' SANITARY ASSOCIATION . 77
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/5/
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