Sleep, or, The hygiene of the night / by W.W. Hall.

  • William Whitty Hall
Date:
1870
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Credit: Sleep, or, The hygiene of the night / by W.W. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eight. About one sixth of all the deaths in civilized countries are caused by consumption, and this notwithstanding the fact that in some countries it is absolutely unknown, and in others prevails very little. Where it does pre- vail it is really ‘the great destroyer.’ One third of all the deaths in England are from tuberculous diseases. The advantages of the equable climate there are more than counter- balanced by the excessive humidity of the at- mosphere. More females than males die of it in some places; more persons in sedentary and in- door life than among those of active out-door pursuits. The disease is scarcely known among the savage races of men. It prevails most and is most fatal in low situations, where the air is surcharged with moisture and is less frequently changed by the wind. In fine, all the facts go to show that the great cause of consumption is lack of pure and vitalizing air. “ Miss Nightingale has such faith in the heal- ing and restorative powers of the air, that she makes a full and free supply of it, night and day, the first condition of successful hospital treatment. In the English hospitals the space allotted to each bed is twenty-one hundred
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