Preventive medicine to the public health / by Alfred Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, Alfred.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Preventive medicine to the public health / by Alfred Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. OPINIONS OF OUR LEADING STATESMEN. That our leading statesmen are in unison on the subject of Sanitary Measures may be inferred from speeches made at different times by the two great rival champions of politics, the Earl of Beaconsfield and Mr. Gladstone. The former remarked, on the occasion of opening one of the Victoria Dwellings Association's new buildings, on June 23, 1877:- That Her Majesty takes a deep interest in the move- ment for the improvement of the dwellings of the people, and expressed her wish that her name might be associated with the institution. Proceeding, the Noble Earl said :— I have touched upon the health of the people, and I know there are many who look upon that as an amiable, but merely philanthrophic expectation to dwell upon. But the truth is, the matter is much deeper than it appears upon the surface. The health of a people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their power, as a state, depends. It is quite possible for a kingdom to be inhabited by an able and active population ; you may have successful manufactures, and you may have productive agriculture, the arts may flourish, architecture may cover your land with temples and palaces—you may even have material power to defend and support all these acquisitions ; but, if the population of the country is stationary, or yearly diminishing in number, it diminishes also in stature and in strength—that country is doomed. Speaking to those who I hope are not ashamed to say they are proud of the empire to which they belong, and 23—2