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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    extraordinary development of every branch of our manufacturing industry, which induces even the most distant nations to look to this country as to the great mart which, however varied their wants may be, can best supply them. In this national prosperity, in our successful competi- tion with numerous rivals, and in the acquisi- tion of immense wealth, we see much that is calculated to gratify our vanity as a people; yet at the same time arises a momentous ques- tion, ‘May not nations, like individuals, curtail their day of power in the world's history, by overtaxing the physical and mental energies at their disposal, thus prematurely consuming that national life-blood on which perma- nent greatness mainly depends ? ’ Among the many important subjects connected with this wide-spread migratory tendency, there is one which, to sanitary reformers, must needs prove peculiarly interesting. I refer to the influence which it is likely to exert on the public health. As Honorary Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association, I have had occasion to draw up weekly and quar-