| 1849 - 618 sivua
...counted sickly, yet in 1685 more than one in twenty-three of the inhabitants of the capital died. At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty...difference in salubrity between the London of the 19th century and the London of the 17th century is very far greater than the difference between London... | |
| 1849 - 638 sivua
...accounted sickly, yet in 1665 more than one in twenty-three of the inhabitants of the capital died. At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty...difference in salubrity between the London of the 19th century and the London of the 17th century is very far greater than the difference between London... | |
| 1849 - 896 sivua
...police. The term of human life has been lengthened over the whole kingdom, and especially in t!ie towns. The difference in salubrity between the London of the nineteenth century and London of the seventeenth century is very far greater than the difference between London in an ordinary... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 sivua
...sickly ; yet in the year 1685 more than one in twenty-three of the inhabitants of the capital died.* At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty...difference in salubrity between the London of the uinteenth century and the London of the seventeenth century is very far greater than the difference... | |
| 1852 - 604 sivua
...the inhabitants of the capital died. (The deaths were 23,222 — Potty's Political Arithmetic). At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty...in an ordinary season, and London in the cholera.' It is evident from this, that the causes of mortality are not perpetual and irremoveable, but that... | |
| Edward Hazen Parker - 1854 - 692 sivua
...sickly; yet in the year 1685 more than one in twenty-three of the inhabitants of the capital died. At present, only one inhabitant of the capital in forty...in an ordinary season and London in the cholera." So greatly has the term of human life been lengthened. We find, in an address delivered by Professor... | |
| William Douglas Hamilton - 1854 - 192 sivua
...man is now nearly double what it was in the seventeenth century. "The difference," says Macaulay, " in salubrity between the London of the nineteenth...in an ordinary season and London in the cholera." Owing to the improved physical comforts of the people, and the advance of medical science, many fearful... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1858 - 480 sivua
...sickly ; yet in the year 1685 more than one in twenty three of the inhabitants of the capital died.* At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty...than the difference between London in an ordinary year and London in a year of cholera. Still more important is the benefit which all orders of society,... | |
| Conway Evans - 1858 - 148 sivua
...sickly; yet in the year 1685, more than one in twenty-three of the inhabitants of the capital died. At present, only one inhabitant of the capital in forty...than the difference between London in an ordinary year, and London in a year of Cholera." To pave streets, and to water roads, to drain houses, and even... | |
| Joseph Jones (clerk to the Derby local board of health.) - 1858 - 52 sivua
...sickly ; yet in the year 1685 more than one in twenty-three of the inhabitants of the capital died. At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty...difference in salubrity between the London of the 19th century and the London of the 17th century is very far greater than the difference between London... | |
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