470 State Boakd of Agkioui.tuue, &c. 



SANITAliY REFORM. 



BY DR. L S. WISWALL, OF CABOT. 



I am well aware how often we hear of the pure moun- 

 tain air we breathe. How pure the water with which we 

 are supplied. How our people are not crowded into cities, 

 but rather have all the surroundings of nearly perfect san- 

 itary conditions. 



K the above is a quite correct picture of our condition, a 

 paper upon this subject will hardly be of interest suffitdent 

 to merit your attention, and we can be better employed than 

 in its reading. 



JSut one ten'tble fact, that nearly one-half of all the 

 children born die before the expiration of one year, may well 

 cause us to pause in the course of our self-gratulations. 



We, at the distance of four tliousand years, read with 

 melanclioly interest of that Egyptian king, of infamous 

 memory, w^ho killed all of the Hebrew male children ;■ also 

 of that other king, who made himself equally infamous, in 

 a like manner, by destroying one-half of the Jewish child- 

 ren of Bethlehem. And liere let us remember that, had 

 they lived at this time, they would have found one-half of 

 this slaughter of the imiocents done without their aid. 



