Handbook of rural sanitary science : illustrating the best means of securing health and of preventing disease. Preface [and] contents / by C.F. Gardner [and others] ; edited by Lory Marsh.

  • Marsh, Lory
Date:
1876
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Credit: Handbook of rural sanitary science : illustrating the best means of securing health and of preventing disease. Preface [and] contents / by C.F. Gardner [and others] ; edited by Lory Marsh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (c) The best means of carrying out the above objects under the most varying circumstances. Nineteen essays were sent in, and the prize was awarded to Mr. C. F’. Gardner, of Ashbourne, Derby- shire, whose essay is comprised in the first five chap- ters of this work, and bore the following motto :— ‘dorep imariwy payévTwr ict Tie Hrynral, otTw Kal ot iarpol, Oray Tiveg voohowot, Tore iWvTae TovTOVC’ Gol CE TOUTOU pEeyaAoTpETEDTEpA EoTAaL 1 THE Vytelag emipedreca,’— XENOPHON, Oyropedia, 1. 6. ‘As there are persons who mend torn garments, so there are physicians to heal the sick; but your duty is far nobler, and one befitting a great man—viz., to keep the people in health.’—T'ranslation. Mr. Gardner will be known to many as the author of a successful essay on ‘ The Inequalities and Anoma- lies of the Present System of Local Taxation.’ In making their award, the adjudicators specially recommended as deserving ‘ honourable mention’ the essays by Dr. W. Berry, Mr. C. N. Cresswell, Mr. T. Hennell, also those by Mr. Tyson, of Hulme, and Dr. Ward, of Grange-over-Sands. , The prize essay is printed in full. The remain- ing essays were placed in my hands to arrange for publication; and in carrying out this very agreeable task I have endeavoured to put before the reader the
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