Sanitary Inquiry, Scotland
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ISBN13: 9780217551267
Paperback|9780217551267
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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: state; and thirdly, by crowding persons when healthy in ill-ventilated and unclean places. 1 hope that we shall always find within ourselves sufficient motives to remove or avoid filthiness, even when convinced that it does not produce contagious fever. Whence this belief of its doing so was derived I am unable to explain, but it has probably been confirmed by the frequent coincidence of such fever with nastiness and offensive smells in the dwellings of indigent people. There is, however, no necessary or natural connexion between the former and the latter. Many writers of celebrity, and among them the great Lord Bacon, have thought that no effluvia were so infectious and pernicious to mankind as those which issued from putrefying human bodies. There are facts, however, on a large scale which completely decide the question; two of these deserve particular notice. The first relates to exhumations in the church-yard of St. Elei at Dunkirk, in the year 1783; and the other to those made three years afterwards in the church-yard of the St. Innocents at Paris. I shall, to avoid repetition, here describe only the latter. The church-yard of the St. Innocents at Paris, situated in one of the most populous quarters of the city, had been made the depository of so many bodies, that although each area enclosed more than seventeen hundred square toises, or near two acres, yet the soil had been raised by them eight or ten feet higher than the level of the adjoining streets. Numerous complaints having been made concerning the offensive smells which arose from this spot, and sometimes penetrated into the adjoining houses, and the public mind being greatly alarmed, it was at last determined to forbid all future burials there, and to remove so much of the superstratum as would reduce ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217551267 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217551262 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.68 In |
| List Price | $23.37 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 304 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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