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126 THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAI, SCIENCJB,
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—~~*>» President Of The Council.—The Rt....
_FOTJJtTH DEPAET 1 MT . TMs Department considers PUBLIC the HEALTH various que . stions relating to the
Public Health ; if will collect statistical evidence of the relative healthiness of different localitiesof different industrial occupations ,
, and generally of the influence of external circumstances in the production of health or disease : it will discuss improvements in
houseconstruction , ( more especially as to the dwellings of the laboring : classes , ) in drainage , warming , ventilation ; public baths and
washhouses ; adulteration of food and its effects ; the functions of government in relation to public health , the legislative and administrative
machinery expedient for its preservation ; sanitary police , quarantine ; etc . ; poverty in relation to disease , and the effect of unhealthiness
on the prosperity of places and nations . Papers may be classed under the following heads : —
I . The Condition . of the Public Health . The subjects , chiefly * statistical , referred to this head Public , will Health comprise
everything same descri * districts ptive that engaged relates of at the different in to general the the past several periods state or present , industrial of or health under state of occupations _different of particular the circumstances _districts as well , as . or , Papers and of of the the of
persons tion special are diseases most liable to which will particular be classed localities under this , and division modes . , of life or of
occupa-To , this II . The head Causes will be , referred which modify that the treat Public of the Health causes . whichwhether papers
favorably these causes or act injuriousl . TMs y division , affect the will Public thus include Health , the and consideration the mode , in of which the either individuall
production Of disease by external causes to which persons , y tation " or collectivel diet y occupation , are liable station to be exposed or habit ; such . as climate , soil , locality ,
habi-III , . The , Improvement , of , the Public Health . Communications that suggest lans for the amendment of the Public
machinery Health , whether requisite these for : the have administration reference p to of leg sanitary islative enactments law ; to the , removal and the the
prevention of causes of of disease disease by b engineering y hygienic or precautions ' oilier mechanical , will be app classed liances under ; or to this
head . IV . Social and Economical Aspects of Public Health . rates This division on the will population include the inquiry effect into of Sanitary tb . e effect Improvement of diminished on death the
-National up Wealththe Diminution ; of Pauperismand the general Moral and Physical Elevation , of the Community . ,
_FIIFTli DEPARTMENT . SOCIAL ECONOMY .
In this Department are considered the various questions relating ' to Social Economics ; the conditions of Industrial Success , whether
of nations or individuals ; the relation between employers and employed ; strikes and combinations ; legislative interference with the
hours and wages of labor ; legislative regulation of professions , trades , and employment generally , and of price and means of supply ;
emigration , its effect , and true conditions ; industrial employment of
126 The Promotion Of Sociai, Sciencjb,
126 THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAI _, _SCIENCJB _,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/54/
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