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    178 INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES.

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    * , About One-Fourth Of All The Children...

    debris world ? fro Who m the that body has raixed experience with , accumulated of the dirty filth , from languid the , outer and italshel

    _attenuated children brought for advice to our hosp , can p country wondering ? These that such are subjects a state of not things pleasant the could veil to must dwell exist be , upon in a , civilized but letel if

    good drawn conclude is ; we to that come must because not of such be we de are discus ceived said sions by to words , be in or a hi specious h state phrases of comp civiliza , and y - g

    tionwe are in general a clean people . It may be safely affirmed that , there are individuals whose bodies have never been completely

    washed from the first to the last hour of their existence . *' Foul bodies and foul clothes are the cause of death by another the

    mode . Whenever uncleanliness is combined with overcrowding , believing atmosphere that is they sensibl then y polluted become , and the direct there source is every of reason acute and for

    fatal feversdiarrhoea , and other diseases . But it is at least certainthat , any existing epidemic is not only kept alive , but

    fostered , and its range extended by the same causes . Unfortunatel , even when it is in their power to obtain fresh

    y , dread air , the of poor taking generall cold y they neglect will ventilation endure all . the From discomfort an exaggerated of close

    matters pestilential i rooms rather of , the than common open laws a window of life . In exists this to and a degree other gnorance

    prehended hardly , within , than belief if breathing . The value , instead of fresh of being air is a vital no more necessity com- ,

    were an idle habit . The subjects of ventilation and drainage have of late arrested before

    much attentionbut it will take at least another generation the haunts of poverty , cease to be hotbeds of disease . The present

    wretched tenements of the poor , and especially that barbarous contrivance for of space called a courtmust vanish from

    our towns . In economy the metropolis there are numbers , of these squares in miniatureto which a single archway , the dimensions of an

    from ordinary closel door packe , , forms d doors the and only windows mode of are access retained . Noisome by these dr effluvia eary ,

    well-like enclo y sures , only to be returned upon the crowded inmates of the houses . Such is the atmosphere in which thousands of

    children inhale the first breath of life . f * The into spir existence ited exertions cannot which be too have hi called hlcommende the Public dand Bath the s and increasing

    Wash-Houses , gy , Whether support they the Turkish receive proves Bath will the ever effect become they habitual are producing with the on lower the orders poor .

    of cleanliness this country for is all uncertain classes . , the but nation as it has owes established a debt of a hi gratitude gher standard to Mr of .

    classes Urquhart j * There at , length b is y promise whom bids it fair for has the to , been take future introduced a prominent , however . , and lace architecture amongst the for useful the lower arts .

    p unrivalled The donation in . its of munificence Mr . Peabody has , an been American recentl citizen laced resident in the hands amongst of trus us - , , y p

    178 Infant Mortality And Its Causes.

    178 INFANT MORTALITY AND ITS CAUSES .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/34/