Rural depopulation / by G. B. Longstaff.

  • Longstaff, George Blundell, 1849-1921.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Rural depopulation / by G. B. Longstaff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    world-wide, if not universal, extent. It was a pbenomenon as- sociated with the general development of this century, and was not due to any local causes or abuses, real or imagined. Such local causes might intensify the phenomenon, but this was far too widespread to be so explained. It was an inevitable concomitant of progress, and as such we should, on the whole, welcome it; but, like all progress, it contained a certain amount of retrogression, and we should therefore try to minimise the evils, and make the most of the good which resulted from it. ' ' '- T . IIABBISON AND BO.NS, ThlXTtllS IN OHDINABY TO HEB MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN S LANK.