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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