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while the generality of human beings, either through perversity, on by the securities of their Larreations, drag on their existence unemicinuly in the midst of pestilential influences. The Registrar General informes
there are
lune
than
SEPTIL
us that in England
millions of people
inhabiting the metropolis and all the cities. and great
great centres of industry, still expond to a mortality which is not inherent in their nature, but is due to the artificial circumstances which they are placed. The waters, the sewers, the soils, the churchyards, the houses cuit poisons. To every 10 natural deaths 4 violent deaths, deaths
exhalations -
are
from
these poisonous added..". Not only does the
sanatory movement, parzcented with so much
in regland, every day
praiseworthy energy in England
afford conoboration of the truth of the above ascentions, but India and other places under British dominion come under the ban of sanatory apathy_, where in various brealities
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a very high rate of mortality has revilted fromenuces which when discovered, were easily.
removed.
The study of climate does not
merely embrace
consideration
of
the
peculiarities in the chemical constituents of the atmosphere, which are remarkably_
where, but it includes a
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uniform every hurwledge of the effects of
the
effects of situation,- influence of prevailing winds, the existence or absence of clectricity, the geological structure of the soil, and its regetable and mineral furducts; and, not least, the habits and persents of the inhabitants. Some of these
beyond the control of man's ingenuity. He cannot alter latitude, invote
cireumitances are
repress clectricity, nor disperse on promote the formation of clouds; but he may often convert sharp and concentrated currents of air into genial and diffused breezes,_control the nature and extent of regetation,- stop