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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Credit: The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan. 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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    sent out a far more valuable class of persons than those selected by the proprietors of the soil. It was soon found, however, that the improvement among the inferior emigrants was decided and rapid, and such is the marvellous elasticity of the human frame, that even in the case of the most abject outcasts of our great cities we might anticipate with confidence a change for the better, a change which would in time render them a valuable acquisition to the colonies which might receive them. Would not the relief funds of a Union be more pro- fitably expended in encouraging emigration in persons of this class, and in giving them assist- ance of a permanent character than in pension- ing them at home, and thus making them the slavish recipients of pauper charity ? There is another direction likewise in which much might be done to curtail the catalogue of citv diseases: I refer to the establishment of %/ effective measures to check the spreading of infection. In investigating the outbreaks of several epidemics, I have been much struck by the manner in which diseases of this class