[Health and how to preserve it] / by John Haddon.

  • Haddon, John.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: [Health and how to preserve it] / by John Haddon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I HEALTH, AND HOW TO PRESERVE IT. Bv JOHN HADDON, M.A., M.D., Edin. The Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association has for its general objects, the prevention of disease and the spread of the knowledge of sanitary laws amongst the people. Its committee meet regularly all the year round, and discuss subjects which are like y to improve the health of the community; while it pubHshes weekly a list of the diseases under treatment in the many hospitals tvhich exist around us. It provides every winter a course of lectoes, which are intended to educate the mass of the people with regard to sanitary laws, or to teach them how to avoid disease Dy telling them how diseases are produced The lecture I have this night to deliver, is the second of this years series, and the subject I have chosen is Health, and how to preserve it. What I have got to say is to the busy working ^'^ '''P^f'^ from, insanitary conditions, and amongst whom the death rate is highest wor^L r ^^^ ^ ''^ ^^^^^y educating the cat on ' f'° something of compulsory edu- cation and I have no doubt that in a few years you will see what a change education can effect. The working classes form the S ^-o^king classes that thZouZ. V '^^^ her greatness, and if she would maintain Isf ni ° 7 '^^^ among the nations, she edSn' Witre^ classes on a par with^heirs as regarSs great r civilisation advances, and we get Es Th' .^K^^K together and 'forming lafge paired ml^v / ' ^^^^fi^'^'' ^heir health is im^ r s'Tei^L 'n.' ^^y ^it^ disease lurking in great ci vTr^but nonr ' generation or two, these denizens Sf a city are but poor representatives of their forefathers in regard