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the formation of pernicious gases evolved from vegetable decomposition, drain the moisture from the land, and thus modify the effects on the atmosphere of electricity and tropical sun; and, lastly, he may reform the social habits of the people.
While physiologists have determined the exact morbific limits of contagions, the very important question of the reciprocal action of diseased bodies congregated together, has been generally overlooked. The power of averting or controlling and modifying disease, by such precautionary measures as a due consideration of the relative influences of bodies will dictate, should not be entirely overlooked as is often the case in our confidence in the resources of medicine.
On all sides it is admitted that endemical diseases acquire intensity by congregation in large numbers, and become epidemic and malignant; and there serious changes result.
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too frequently alas from other remediable causes besides the neglect of segregation, melancholy details of the diseases on the African coast by Dr. Bryson will testify. Thus it is that by a neglect of simple sanitary measures, not less than by an obstinate adherence to unsuitable regulations in regime, brutalities are practised, human life is sacrificed, and political and social inconveniences are entailed. It is the province of such a report as this to point out such omissions and evils.
The past year has been almost unequalled for the prevalence of sickness in Houghing; yet the mortality has been remarkable in only one community, a fact which an inquiry into causes within perceptible limits may elucidate. The following statistical details help to elucidate this subject.
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