The Perils of the Nation: An Appeal to the Legislature, the Clergy And the ...
The Perils of the Nation: An Appeal to the Legislature, the Clergy And the ...
Robert Benton Seeley
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Disease not necessarily infectious frequently becomes so by the impure exhalations vrith which it loads an already vitiated atmosphere, deficient in all that might neutralize the hostile effluvia ; those exposed to it Digitized by Google ^^^; WAKT OF SANITART REGULATIONS. 1£5 being equally destitute of means to invigorate the frame, and so to assist the efforts that nature makes to repel a noxious inflaeoce. Thus, a codi- mon sore throat , or other trifling ailment, brought by an individual int...o his own court or alley, may decimate the neighbourhood. * A merciful pro- vision to thin a redundant population,' — ^say some calculating theorists j but let the pestilence extend to their precincts J and the messenger of death cross their own thresholds, we shall soon find, in their eager recourse to every available means fur baffling the enemy, that they consider he has exceeded his commission : that God is a respecter of persons j and that the sword of the destroying angel was whetted only to slaj the poor^^ We address not ourselves to such as are past feeling; but to those who would gladly alleviate, if it were possible, the sufferings, and improve the lot of their fellow- men : and who J admitting the truth of our state- mentj which is, indeed, undeniable, are ready to enquire, How can these things be obviated?
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