The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan.

  • Morgan, John Edward, 1829-1892.
Date:
1866
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    consequently, peculiarly valuable members of any community they might select as their dwelling-place. We may readily imagine that these persons contributed, in no small degree, to maintain that comparatively favourable standard of health which has long characterised the metropolitan returns. Calculations based on the foregoing statistics, and others bearing on the same subject, have led me to the con- clusion that, if London is to continue to main- tain that rate of increase, and that proportion of adult citizens, which has marked her growth during the last fifteen years, she will require, in addition to the natural increase of her own population, the yearly influx of about 18,000 persons, three out of every four being repre- sented by adults. If we estimate the natural increase of population in the country generally, at about 10 in every 1,000 living, we see readily, that in order to produce these 18,000 persons, the whole available resources of a vast country nursery, peopled by nearly two millions, must be called into requisition. Let us next proceed to inquire into the