| Show 14 DECAY OF THE UIE E ENGLISH lish LISA race b dr Mor morgan gaii a ii manchester p physician has published a pamphlet on this for subject he maintains that we are all going gain to decay from too much ucil con congregating bating in lu great cities he has hadar had long iong experience in the effects of town life upon tho the dvork working man and his family and lias has been led to stud study y the abounding ing sabbi sanitary tary statistics of 10 day with unusual care gare andee and here hero is his description of the Manchester 0 operative as he now is in a vat vast number 7 of of instances ns and sueh such as s ho he is im ver Yer smally sally saily bendid tending kcf Ve become couie COUle the cresenc present typical factory hand hafid wants wanta physical stamina rand yand and jar ar s system s e is rarely well strung his liis pulse alse plse tel tol tells of a want aut ant of of power in the nea heart t and its variations are rapid under unde the e least e t excitement and exertion his feet are aro cold his veins prominent ano and he is given to vertigo his lips are blanched and his cheeks colourless colo urless neuralgia is his frequent ailment allmen tand and the teeth the eyes the hair the skin and the glands all denote the absence of that well balanced tension of the nervous system on which the easy easy and harmonious working of the frame so largely depends in men who were born in country places and only mig grate to bian Blan manchester chester or towns in their youth or advanced boylA boyhood these s symptoms of degeneration are less usual than those who were born and bred in the midst of the destroying influences fluen ces but even upon them these ini in i fluentes fluen ces tell to an extent which is nothing less than a national calamity in the four in england london liverpool manchester and birmingham the flie average number of marriages to every thousand of living persons was about twelve and a half in tho the year 1861 1801 and the tho number of births was about t thirty airty six so that the average number of children born born in each family is somewhat less than three but buc in london lordon where the proportion of the wealthy and comfor comfortable tab classes is so 1 great the avera average te number of children was nearly four whilo while in lw manchester I 1 1 where the poor are an enormous por tion of the whole population the average I 1 number born to each pamily family was little than iwo two now examine the proportion of marriage and birtle in in the twenty seven a agricultural counties in the year the n number U aber of birth births s indicated an average of four anda and a half children born horn to every married pair during their lifetime here indeed is iff a P physiological y biological proof of the permanent de decay c vy of tho the constitution of vital moment there are more than twice as many children born to each country dwelling pair 1 as in are born to each edeh married coupie couple in manchester binn Blan chester take next the death rate in the four great cities and in the agricultural counties I 1 I 1 in 1861 forty five out of every thousand persons died under dundei thone thene theace of fifteen id irl the cities taking them altogether in london by itself the death rate was only thirty four per thousand while in bian Blan manchester chester it was forty seven and in liverpool fifty six Inthe in the same year in the agricultural districts the death rate of persons under fifteen was only twenty two per thousand showing that in liverpool the mortality of children is two and a half balf times as great as in villages and country towns the physical causes of this frightful state of things are in dr morgans opinion ch chiefly lefly three each of them destructive by itsel itself fInd iund hund lind irr liy combination with the others stillmore fatal the first is th the vitiated va a ar of the fi house ousep the factor factories ls and arld the street ets lof sot cities otles and pree eminent ly of bian Blan manchester chester the phenomena ascertained certa ined by meteorological observations af at manchester are surprising in the middle midd leof of the city the average winter temperature Is eight degress higher than yan in the tho outskirts and the average summer temperature is five degree degrees s lower the explanation is aay ass A murky massof mass of noxious gaseous vapour japour hangs over the city night and day through which the suns warmest summer rays never neven thoroughly penetrate pene pepe while in the winter winten the earths heat never thoroughly radiates upwards that ious fous element of life ozone is never detected in the centre of manchester in the suburbs it is obtained in considerable quantities but what the air loses in ozone it gains gain in sulphur no nd alkaline rain falls in uan man manchestor manchester ches ter proper and the rain is so acid that one drop colouos colours the litmus paper that is used as the tho ordinary test while just in those parts of the city where the air is found most largely charged with organic impurities there the death rate is highest in tho midst of this poisonous atmosphere ere ero lives ilves a population that suffers to a frightful extent from that contagious and hereditary disease which is ruining the 66 health olour of our oun soldiers soldie marid malid ardd arid sailors a few overflowing lock loek hospitals vain ly attempt to stem in two years says dr morgan goo of the Bran manchester chister poor ware were known knola tor toc summer suffer from this pest ils lis as detected in the working of public institutions alone and exclusive of the innumerable eases cases treated in private practice 1 to these two causes add the results 0 of excessive spirit d drinking hi akin g and we are no longer at a loss to account for the innumerable early deaths and childless marriages of the artisan class elass drinking too in the country is more exclusively the vie wic vice mice e of df the men than ft it is inthe cities there are drunken women enough indeed in our villages and smaller towns but ut they bear no no proportion to the gin gln n drinking women and girls of landon liverpool and every city eity in great britain drinking too tells more fatally on the woman than on the mau man leter jeter more susceptible te temperament pe ia Is more easily excited and ithe tche the depression that thab follows and calls for renewed excitement eit cit ement is proportionately more complete A very small acquaintance with police offices or any place where drunken women are to be found is amply sufficient to show that the gin that turns a man into a beast boast turns a woman into something almost devilish |
