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Credit: The nationalisation of health / by Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Erivcin of 44 per cent., and the disease, which attacks children chiefly, in summer and autumn, is largely traced to the con- sum]3tion of unripe fruit and vegetables, and the drinking of impure water. There is an extraordinary prevalence of blindness. According to the statistics in the census of 1886 in fifty governments of Eussia there were 21 blind persons to 10,000 inhabitants, or almost fixe times more than in Holland, four times more than in xVustria and the United States, and three times more than in Saxony, Denmark, and Switzerland. There is a vast infant mortality among the working population, due largely to the scanty use of milk, and to every imaginable sin against the laws of dietetics; infants at the breast, also, are often attacked by a dis- order of digestion to which the people have given the descriptive name of grijz (gnaw- ing). Out of 1,000 deaths, the proportion](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21223348_0215.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
