The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan.

  • Morgan, John Edward, 1829-1892.
Date:
1866
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Credit: The danger of deterioration of race from the too rapid increase of great cities / by John Edward Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and first, as regards that portion of it which is settled in London. Whence came those 8114,000 grown-up men and women, on whose lives and labour the prosperity and greatness of the empire city so largely depend? The majority of them certainly did not migrate there from the great centres of industry, where their constitutions might have suffered from long hours of confinement—men of this class constitute but a small item in the alien element of the population of London. That such is the case, may be gathered from the statistics contained in my second table (see Appendix, table 2, page 54), which specifies the particular counties in which these aliens were born. We there learn that the immigrants, as a rule, are natives of the healthiest agricultural counties in England. The population of the country is divided in this table into two parts, according to the prevailing form of employment. The counties in which a large proportion of the adult population is engaged in industrial pursuits, either in connection with our manu- factures, in any of their varied departments,