The loss of wealth by the loss of health / by John Watts.

  • Watts, John.
Date:
[1879?]
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    term of 7 5 years. If I ask, Why do not all these children live until 75 years of the answers will be legion : Defective at birth, born with he tary diseases, born with weakly constitutions ; whilst ign( mothers, careless nurses, infectious diseases, accidents, mo obliged to work too long during pregnancy, and to return too after delivery, will furnish a few of the more prominent reasor which will be properly urged. Leaving these matters to be d' with by legislation, by education, and by further improvement'- municipal and sanitary arrangements, let us advance to the work age, where the sickness which usually precedes death, and wl often returns many times before proving fatal, is capable of ben . treated under a money aspect. _ ^ The life assurance companies ask a proposing assurer, amor other questions, if he has had the ordinary diseases of childhou implying that if he has not, then the Ufe is more risky to thei We are now taught that what are called zyrnotic diseases are ti: necessary for the establishment of health in adult life, but a<j only caught by contact with diseased pers6ns or their clothes, by breathing an infected atmosphere, and that such diseases C be stamped out. We may therefore look with confidence f improvement in these respects. Dr. Haviland read a paper at t;: Society of Arts, on 31st January last, showing that certam class-* of disease are very much localised; and the paper was of: thoughtful a character that Dr. Richardson spoke of the labc involved in it as overwhelming. The broad conclusions drai: were that scarlet fever is most prevalent in Lancashire, in Durha and in the northern counties generally, and least prevalent : Suffolk, in Hants, and in Hereford ; that rheumatism and he: disease are most prevalent where the high ground lies so as > obstruct the prevailing winds, and so to accumulate what he C£ air sewage in the valleys, or where the axes of the rivers crc instead of going with the course of the prevailing winds; and. instances the unventilated valleys of Devon, Dorset, Hants, a. Hereford, as peculiarly liable to these diseases. _ He states that cancer is most prevalent on low-lying river D. which are subiect to flooding, as is the valley of the Thames, ^ that it is least prevalent on high and dry porous soils , t1 consumption is most prevalent amongst f^/^^^^,° J',^ ^^^ft ridges of the south-east of England, and on the e eva ed part the west of England, where west and north-west winds prcN