Dust and its dangers / by Mitchell Prudden.

  • Theophil Mitchell Prudden
Date:
[1890]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dust and its dangers / by Mitchell Prudden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A glance over the mortality in various cities in different parts of the world, as it comes to us in the very latest reports, shows everywhere the same story. We find in Dr. Tracy's report to the Health Department of New York City for the week ending March 22, 1890, that in New York City, out of 772 deaths from all causes, 121 were from consumption. In Chi- cago, out of 2,072 deaths, 178 were from con- sumption. In London, out of 1,889 deaths, 206 were from consumption. In St. Peters- burg, out of 617 deaths, 128 were from con- sumption. In Paris, out of 1,214 deaths, 248 were from consumption. In Vienna, out of 470 deaths, 116 were from consumption. In Berlin, out of 650 deaths, 96 were from consumption. These are the bald relentless records of the deaths. But who shall adequately picture, or even remotely conceive, the shattered ambi- tions, the long weary hours of distress and suffering and struggle, the slow weeks and months, lighted fitfully now and then by gleams of fictitious hope, which lead to the last long release. And what shall be said of the deso- lated homes and scattered families, and pov-
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