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become regulations, London nosology." By means, he indicated that between 30,000 and 40,000 inhabitants of Liverpool lived in noisome dens called cellars, elaborating pestilence, and practising every vice. In 1849, 4700 cellars were cleared of 26,000 inhabitants, under the superintendence of Dr. Duncan, the medical officer of health. The last epidemic preceding the clearance carried off 500 of these people, while the Cholera, which broke out during the time the forced change in residence was in progress, slew the comparatively small number of 94.
Vague conjectures deduced from impressions on the mind, and the immediate fruit of startling occurrences, receive too often more credence than statements suggested by a careful examination of facts. A sudden death, or the rapid succession of deaths in a small community, where every event is patent, creates impressions of insalubrity, which the best digested and most striking record of opposing facts fails to eradicate; while a few instances of longevity are cited as evidences of local sanitary perfection.
The truths that come out of a statistical inquiry show the apparent evidences of evil to be but a rapid and temporary succession of generally unfrequent events, and of the good, a paradoxical and almost invariable contradiction of themselves. It is found, as if there were a tendency in nature to special compensating in this respect, that the most striking instances of longevity occur in communities in which the average duration of life is the shortest.
The following tables afford the Colonial Surgeon's statistics of disease and death in Hongkong for the year 1849.
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become
regulations, London nosology." By
732
a permanent blank in
the
Lame
means,
he
indicated that between 30,000 and 40,000
wof.
: inhabitants of Liverpool lived in noisome dons called cellars, elaborating, pestilence,
and
1 practising every vice. In 1849, 4700- collars were cleared of 26,000 inhabitants, under the superintendence of Bt. Bun cant the medical officer of health. The last epidemic preceding the clearance, carried, :off 500 of these people, while the "Cholera, which broke out during
the time the forced change-
in residence, was
in progress, slew the
comparatively small number of 94. "
Vague. conjectures deduced from impressions the mind, and the
immediate
fuit of startting
012
occurrences, receive too often
Some
more credence thin statements suggested " by a careful examination of facts.
sudden death, or the rapid succession of
deaths in a small
community, where- ivery
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event is patent, creates impressions of ____ insalubrimeness, which the best digested and onost striking record of opposing facts
fails to cradicate ; while a few instances longevity are, by
to as evidences
the
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of
-vague sabe, fuinted of local are sanatory perfection
The truths that come out of a statistical. show the apparent evidences of evil
inquiry
to be but a rapid and temporary succession of generally unfrequent events, and of the good, a frxiadoxical and almost: invariable contradiction of themselvas. It is found,
ad
if there
tendency
pere a
in nature in
special compensating,
this
respect, that the
most sticking instances of longevity in communities in which the average_
duration
of life is the shortect .
occur
The following, tables afford the Crionial Surgeon's statistics of
statistics of disease and death in Hongkong for the
year 1849.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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