Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar.
- James Bonar
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![specially good answers to him on Depopulation. The first26 is from the pen of William Wales, F.R.S., Master of the Royal Mathematical School in Christ’s Hospital, who had been with Captain Cook in the Resolution (on his second voyage round the world, 1772-1775) as Astronomer. Wales deals more particularly with the increase since 175°? by means of Questions addressed to old inhabitants concerning houses and cottages, being ‘‘mobbed” for his inquisitiveness in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He also applied to the subject his own knowledge of London, and even his experience in the Blue- coat School. He thinks there is a distinct change for the better in the matter of air, and cleanliness, in London, leading to a reduction of the death-rate there. “Nothing, I am convinced from much experience,” he says, “contributes so much to health as cleanliness, and I am persuaded that in the Resolution we owed more to Captain Cook’s care in this respect than to every other cause put together [sic]” Cook, it is generally admitted, had made a new beginning as far as sailors were con¬ cerned by the air and cleanliness and the choice of diet, for avoidance of scurvy—so that the Resolution came home, having in three years in this second voyage lost only four men and only one by sickness out of 118, while the experience of the sister ship was far otherwise, and in Cook’s first voyage he had lost thirty men out of eighty-five. It might have been a good example for Mill’s Logic to illus-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0212.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
