First Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine: For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1885 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1331171415 ISBN 13: 9781331171416

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from First Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine: For the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 1885

This modern movement to improve the public health has not been confined to England, but extended to Scotland, it has lowered the death-rate in Glasgow from 30 to 24 in the 1000, and diminished remarkably the amount of discomfort, pauperism and crime; to India, where it has reduced the death-rate in the last decade by two thirds; to the English army, where it has brought the death~rate down from 18 to 8 in the 1000; to the navy, where the death-rate is only 5 to the 1000 in contrast with the death-rate of 18 which still exists in the merchant marine. It has furthermore encouraged and stimulated all the other peoples of the earth to study and to put into practical use that most profitable of all systems of political economy - public hygiene.

Among our own States, Massachusetts was the first, sixteen years ago, to establish a State Board of Health, and since then in pretty rapid succession, one State after another has taken its place until now there are but five that have not, through a State Board of Health, made provisions for a public health service. Our own State, in taking her place somewhat late among those that have given recognition to the claims of public hygiene on all modern govern ment, has the advantage of the lessons of experience which others have learned, yet this procrastination has been costly in lives and needless sickness. In the same year, 1870, when Massachusetts created her State Board of Health, and in a few of the succeeding years, we were seeking to increase our population by the encourage ment of foreign immigration. As the result of this we have our pros perons Swedish Colony which is a sufficient testimonial to the wisdom of that policy; but at the same time, and ever since, we have been losing every year needlessly by death, of those who are of our own flesh and blood, more lives than have come to us from Sweden. Every year, also, by preventable disease which does not end in death.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1331171415
• ISBN 13: 9781331171416
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340
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