A Glance at the Sanitary Defects of the Site of London and Its Environs
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It is probable that the sanitarians of the future will declare that we, the sanitary pioneers of the nineteenth century, were little more than unclean barbarians, unable to master the first principles of scavenging, when they read that, despite all our affectation of learned dogmatism, and our pretence that our rude art is an exact science, a preventable fever took from our midst the best-beloved man of his time ; that the same malady well-nigh deprived Britain's loyalty of its dearest hope; that our oldest and newest palaces are not more free from diphtheria and puerperal fever than the swamp-engirt towers of the Middle Ages were from black death and sweating sickness; and that when a ruler, as honoured in Europe as he was valued and revered in his
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