Bacteriology and preventive medicine / by Stephen Smith Burt.

  • Burt, Stephen Smith, 1850-1932.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Bacteriology and preventive medicine / by Stephen Smith Burt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    no place is there such rank superstition. In New York City there are nearly nine hundred thousand persons living in tenement houses, and thousands of families are eating, sleeping, and what is more, working in apart- ments that consist of one or two rooms, and which are filthy beyond description. The smouldering embers of infection are always to be found in the haunts of the ignorant poor ; and as ignorance is the legitimate off- spring of poverty, improving the material condition of the poorer classes, is a more rational method than vainly pursuing a pharmaceutical will-o’-the-wisp, to prevent the periodical outbreak of needless disease, which spreads contagion from these mephitic centres into the homes of the more favored members of the L community. Voluntary attention to sanitary rules, as * well as spontaneity in the observance of a moral code, never reasonably can be expected from man while yet in the depths of ignorance and the degradation of pauperism. 37 West Thirty-second Street.