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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

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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

Lanc

хадис

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.

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