Filth-Diseases and Their Prevention
by John Simon
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ISBN13: 9780217213615
Paperback|9780217213615
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFATORY REMARKS TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. It would be impossible, without injury to its general effect, to remove from the body of this essay the various references to the authority under which Mr. Simon acted, also those to certain papers and certain laws, some of which may seem at first sight irrelevant for us in America. It has therefore been deemed wise to print the paper almost exactly as it was originally offered, viz., as a Preface to a volume of admirable reports made by Government Inspectors upon several epidemics which had occurred in various parts of England (vide Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board, New Series, No. 2). To that volume, every reader who desires to see how far England is in advance of us in thorough sanitary work, is respectfully referred. In our Appendix will be found a few of the summaries given by Mr. Simon, as illustrations of the origin of various epidemics. Each one of them is very suggestive, not only to England, but to everyiy PREFACE. householder in America. The Editors would urge upon every one the importance of a perusal of each one of these statements; and afterwards, if necessary, let him make due application of the instruction thereby gained, to the improvement of his own homestead. A few notes only have been added, either explanatory of technical words, or in reference to the thoughts or suggestions in the text in their applicability to Massachusetts. chapter{{Section 4FILTH-DISEASES THEIE PREVENTION. 1. In the subject-matter of Preventive Medicine, considered with reference to the administrative needs of England at the present time, Enteric (Typhoid) Fever, with the diseases which are allied to it in mode of origin, must necessarily, I think, stand as first topic: and I ava...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217213615 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217213618 |
| Weight | 0.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.15 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 64 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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