Britains Homes a Study of the Empires Heart Disease
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Already about four-fifths of the population of the United Kingdom dwell in towns, and only one-fifth in the country. It is claimed that this one-fifth represents the national bulwark ; THE GRAVES OF OUR PHYSIQUE 6i but how long, think you, will it last ? How long will it withstand the weakening that is going on with fateful regularity every year ? We saw what this weakening meant in the South African campaign. England for the first time in her history could not stand alone. The Colonies saved u...s by sending men of the stamp we used to rear ourselves before the homes of England in town and comitry became the graves of the physique of our race. CHAPTER VI HALF A CENTURY OF QUACK MEDICINES Haying diagnosed the disease, whicli hitherto has been airily styled the Housing Problem ; having at the same time seen how much more applicable is the name given to it by Mr. Arnold White— the Empire's heart-disease, — let us now consider how the trouble has been treated in the past. Lord Shaftesbury, with his singular zeal for healing social sores, showed the country the way out of the housing difficulty half a century ago.
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