THEIR CAUSES AND PREVENTION. BY THE HON. ROLLO RUSSELL. LONDON: EDWARD STANFORD, 26 & 27 COCKSPUR STREET, CHARING CROSS, S. W. 1892. [All rights reserved.] Neala "It is in the power of man to cause the parasitic maladies to disappear from the surface of the globe, if, as I am convinced, the doctrine of spontaneous generation is a chimaera."-PASTEUR. "Of the 627 registration districts of England, one only had an entire escape from diseases which in whole or in part were prevalent in all the others in the ten years from 1851 to 1860. . . . It was the district of the Scilly Isles, to which it was improbable contagion should come from without. In all the ten years it had not a single death by measles, by small-pox, by scarlet fever. It was one of the seven districts of England in which no death from diphtheria occurred."— JOHN SIMON. "You, and not the Visitation of God,' are the cause of epidemics; and of you, now that you are once fairly warned of your responsibility, will your brother's blood be required.”—CHARLES KINGSLEY. "From the day when I first began to think of these subjects, I have never had a doubt that the specific cause of contagious fevers must be living organisms."— DR. WILLIAM BUDD. "The one essential condition is cleanliness. That local sanitary authorities, proceeding to act upon this principle, with a clear intelligence of what cleanliness actually means, and with sincere resolution to enforce it in their respective districts, can within a few years reduce by some tens of thousands the annual mortality of England, is, I think, at least as certain as that such ought to be the aim of their existence."-JOHN SIMON. "The Prevention of Filth Diseases." Local Government Board Report. "The most pressing work of sanitary reformers is now not so much to legislate as to educate; to make the mass of the people, in some degree, participators in the knowledge of the causes of disease which is possessed by men of science."The Times, Aug. 11, 1891. “As in times of invasion every loyal citizen is ready to take up arms in defence of the common liberty, so should every one make war against the common enemy which comes to attack the health."-F. MONTIZAMBERT, M.D., Superintendent Canadian Quarantine Service. "Instruct your mayor and corporation, your clergy of all denominations, your own household, that every case of typhoid fever, of scarlatina, of diphtheria, of small-pox, measles, whooping-cough, can no longer be looked upon as natural, providential, or unavoidable, but that the existence of such preventable diseases is a proof of ignorance or negligence, and a disgrace to the country, to the town, to the family."-SIR SPENCER WELLS. M377091 |