A familiar medical survey of Liverpool: addressed to the inhabitants at large. : Containing observations on the situation of the town; the qualities and influence of the air; the employments and manner of living of the inhabitants; the water; and other natural and occasional circumstances whereby the health of the inhabitants is liable to be particularly affected... / By W. Moss.

  • Moss, William.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV
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Credit: A familiar medical survey of Liverpool: addressed to the inhabitants at large. : Containing observations on the situation of the town; the qualities and influence of the air; the employments and manner of living of the inhabitants; the water; and other natural and occasional circumstances whereby the health of the inhabitants is liable to be particularly affected... / By W. Moss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    more unpleafant and uncomfortable, but alfo lefs falutary and grateful to the human con- ftitution, than the fides or vallies. Towns are always efteemed lefs healthful than country places. This rule is not, how- ever, without its exceptions: for if a town, altho’ large, is placed in a healthful fituation, with refpeft to the adjoining country and other natural advantages, it will undoubtedly be much more healthful than the molt elegant villa, with all the affiftance it can derive from labour and art, if it wants natural advantages. It is not, however, to be doubt- ed that, cateris ■paribus [under fimilar cir- cumftances] with refpeft to fituation, the country v/ill always be entitled to a pre- ference. In inquiring into the caufes that may ope- rate as favourable or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of large towns, we are led to attend to different circumftances ; 2s ; the fituation of the town and adjoining coun- try, fea, or rivers; the qualities and influence of the air; the internal difpofltion and regula- tion of the town, refpe&ing the feruShire of the houfesy and the fltuatioHy formationy and cleanline/s of the ftreets; the number and em- ployments