On the connexion of atmospheric impurity with disease
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M'Cormac, Henry. 'On the connexion of atmospheric impurity with disease'. - Belfast: Belfast Social Inquiry Society, No. 6, 1852 , pp1-8Download Item:
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In the observations I am about to make, the subject
may be said to resolve itself into one of bodily health, or wellbeing,
or the best means of avoiding those departures from integrity
and soundness, which we term disease. On the part of
all classes, high, low, rich, and poor, there is a great, though, of
course, varying, departure from the conditions essential to the
preservation of health. Who would believe that in a large,
flourishing, intelligent town like Belfast, and in the very face of
an approaching pestilence, a black, sewer-like stream, worse than
the London Fleet, should be suffered to pollute the air with
exhalations the most virulent and intolerable. My conclusions,
indeed, are stringently and unconditionally urged, but, if so, they
are the result of much experience, as well as of protracted, earnest
inquiry.
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A paper read before the Statistical Section of the British Association, at Belfast, September 7, 1852
Author: M'Cormac, Henry
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Belfast Social Inquiry SocietyType of material:
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Journal of the Belfast Social Inquiry SocietyNo.6, 1852
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Air pollution, Public health, Urban air qualityISSN:
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