Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ing these great triumphs, if boasting is permissible, the sanitariansboast is rather that his science, which had its beginning, as we have seen atthe time when there was a great awakening of the national conscience inBritish politics for the larger sympathy of man with man, has broadenedwith the
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ing these great triumphs, if boasting is permissible, the sanitariansboast is rather that his science, which had its beginning, as we have seen atthe time when there was a great awakening of the national conscience inBritish politics for the larger sympathy of man with man, has broadenedwith the years of its growth ; has endeavored to care for ones brother sothat his blood would not cry up from the ground ; so that, after forty orfifty years had passed, a distinguished sanitarian could write with literalaccuracy: Whatever can cause, or help to cause, discomfort, pain, sickness,death, vice, or crime — and whatever has a tendency to avert or destroy, ordiminish such cases — are matters of interest to the sanitarian; and thepowers of science and the arts, great as they are, are taxed to the uttermost,to afford even an approximate solution of the problems with which he is con- MAP SHOWING REGISTRATION STATES NOW AVAILABLEFOR THE MORTALITY STATISTICS OF THE TWELFTH U. S. CENSUS (1900).. Note. — States having immediate registration of deaths and requiring bur-ial permits are black. The only additions to the list since the Census of 1890are Maine (1891) and Michigan (1897). cerned. 1 And the crowning glory of the science to-day is the care it bestowsupon the weak, the ignorant, and the helpless; the efforts it makes to amelio-rate every undesirable condition of society. It would be misleading to infer that all of these benefits have been broughtabout solely through the collection of vital statistics, although much of itwould have been difficult without the knowledge furnished by these statis-tics. Workers in almost every branch of pure science have contributed tothe pro
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