On the physical causes of the high rate of mortality in Liverpool : read before the Literary and Philosophical Society, in February and March, 1843 / by W.H. Duncan.

  • Duncan, W. H. (William Henry), 1805-1863.
Date:
1843
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Credit: On the physical causes of the high rate of mortality in Liverpool : read before the Literary and Philosophical Society, in February and March, 1843 / by W.H. Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nunc, ratio qua: sit morbis, nut, unde repente Mortiferam possit Cludera conflarc coorta Morbida vis hominum generi, Expediam.— Suspensa manet vis aere in ipso: Et, quom spirantes mixtas hinc ducimus auras, Ilia quoque in corpus pnriter sorbere necesse est. Lucret. dc Serum Natura, Lib. vi. “ On the whole, then, the causes of the happy decrease of some of the most fatal aud epidemic diseases, and the diminution of the fatality of others, may be in a great measure ascribed to the evident changes in the physical and moral condition of the metropolis,—from a state of perpetual filth and nastiness, to the open, airy, well paved, and comparatively cleanly condition in which it now is; and to the alterations in our domestic economy, in regard to situation, ventilation, and cleanliness. Bateman's Historical View of the State of Health, fc. in the Metropolis.