This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...correctness of this belief may be gathered from an inspection of Table XLII., p. 212; and this difference to the disadvantage of the towns is seen in tuberculosis as well as in other diseases. This result may be checked with the help of two valuable tables by Dr. Tatham, published in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...correctness of this belief may be gathered from an inspection of Table XLII., p. 212; and this difference to the disadvantage of the towns is seen in tuberculosis as well as in other diseases. This result may be checked with the help of two valuable tables by Dr. Tatham, published in the RegistrarGeneral's Report for 1904, from which the following table is extracted and calculated. This table deals with an estimated urban population of 18,262,173, including the chief industrial centres, and a rural population of 4,327,835, including only a few unimportant towns and villages. The death-rates have been corrected for variations in the age and sex distribution of the respective populations. TABLE XLIV.--ENGLAND AND Vm.r.s Seleded Urban and Rural Counlier of tire Registrar-General, 1898-1903 These collective results show no less strongly than those of individual countries and towns that town life is unhealthy as a whole, and is favourable to the prevalence of phthisis. If they could be corrected for the fact that the towns attract the robust and strong, while the weakly tend to remain in and return to rural districts, the extent of this mischief would be exhibited more strikingly and even more accurately. In the absence of powerful countervailing influences, those countries would therefore be expected to have suffered most from phthisis and to have shown most marked increase in the disease in which the excess of urban over rural population has been the largest and the most progressive. An examination of the facts shows, however, that the exact contrary has occurred. Table XLV. exhibits for certain countries the distribution of the population between town and country at or near the beginning and end of the period under review. The definition of...
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