Volume 1

Indigestion, biliousness, and gout in its protean aspects / by J. Milner Fothergill.

Date:
1881-1883
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Credit: Indigestion, biliousness, and gout in its protean aspects / by J. Milner Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    termination. From this it would seem town-dwellers are a doomed race. The population of towns is now in excess of the country in Great Britain. The food of town-dwellers is inferior to that of the peasant population; as all famiUar with the subject only know too well. The revelations of the Fac- tory Commission, amidst the toiling millions of our manu- facturing towns, especially those where spinning mills are common, are as instructive as they are apalling. The evidence of Dr. Ferguson of Bolton, before the Commis- sion, told a terrible tale as to the infant mortality, and the deterioration of the physique of the young mill-hands when appearing to be certified for work in the mills. Dwarfing was on the increase in spite of the Factory Acts. (And the improvement which resulted from these beneficent Acts, is readily admitted by those who knew the mill- districts on each side of the slopes of the back-bone of England, before and after the passing of these Acts). One bright spot alone was visible amidst the darkness and the gloom, and that was the good effects of a certain amount of milk in the dietary, in the improvement of the physique. Those who feel interested in this matter can consult TJie Sanitary Record for July 17th and Sept. 25th, 1875. A dietary of tea and bread and butter, was much im- proved when St certain amount of milk was added to it. Now the steady increase of the population of towns is a fact; that the increase will go on further and further is as certain as that to-morrow's sun will rise. The subject is one of the gravest importance to us; of even graver importance to succeeding generations. Of course, for the toihng milhons little can be done beyond the building of