Physical efficiency; a review of the deleterious effects of town life upon the population of Britain : with suggestions for their arrest.

  • Cantlie, James, 1851-1926.
Date:
1906
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Credit: Physical efficiency; a review of the deleterious effects of town life upon the population of Britain : with suggestions for their arrest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER III WHERE DO THE PEOPLE OF BRITISH PARENTAGE BEST THRIVE? It would be of supreme interest from many- racial and ethnological points of view were it possible to compare the physique of the men and women born and bred in Britain, with those of other lands to which our countrymen have hereto- fore emigrated. Is the physique of the American citizen, the Canadian, the Australian, the New Zealander, or the South African colonist equal to, an improvement upon, or a retrogression from, the parent stock in this country ? The issue is obscured by the frequent intermixture of race due to the emigration which is constantly taking place from Northern Europe to over-sea British com- munities. It is difficult to find a wholly inbred third generation in any of these countries, with the exception, perhaps, of the older settlers in the United States of America. The present time is therefore unfavourable for instituting accurate