English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon.

  • Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.
Date:
1897
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    TO THE SECOND EDITION. In preparing this later edition of my English Sanitary In- stitutions, I have made in the test only a very few corrections and slight additions, so that, thus far, the work is in substance almost textually a reprint. At various places, however, I have inserted (in brackets) a few words of notice with regard to former fellow-workers, chiefly those who have died during the past eight years; and also I have added two Appendices. The first of these is a paper which I wrote in 1894, for the purpose of somewhat extending the short reference I had made (at page 5 of the book) to our knowledge of the Early Relations of Human Life in the world. The other is a paper which I wrote in the autumn of 1890 on the then state of the Law regarding Testa- mentary Dispositions of Property; and this, though written for other than sanitary purposes, may, I think, perhaps be of interest in connection with the subject-matter of Chapter XVI. A misfortune, which in the summer of 1896 seriously lessened my powers of eyesight, might well have frustrated my desire of issuing the present edition; but the great kindness of my friend Mr. George Ashburner has helped me over the difficulty of press-correction; and I can hardly say how grateful I feel to him for the power he has thus given me to complete my under- taking. J. S. 19th October, 1897.