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offensive qualities of human evacuation, the nervous incapacity, 

 irritability and unhappiness, are almost entirely the result of 

 " nurture " — not nature. 



In school, children may be disciplined to vigorous health. After 

 leaving school they are set adrift to all the temptations of the world, 



" And custom lies upon them with a weight 

 Heavy as frost and deep almost as life." 



Monotonous work in confined places, amusement in music halls 

 and shows in place of open air and manly exercise, injudicious diet, 

 alcohol, and tobacco — everything which the trainer of an athlete 

 would repel — these we should avoid. 



We do not propose that all men should be athletes, but we do see 

 that perfect physical health gives happiness and efficiency of life, 

 and that our present methods of organizing the life of the masses 

 in our industrial communities are such as to seriously diminish 

 physical health and happiness and shorten life. 1 



Coal mines and chemical factories have a low rate probably because 

 of the necessity for good ventilation. The figures show that the rate 

 for hotel servants is ten times that of engine drivers. Massive infec- 

 tion, intemperance, warm, confined atmospheres, and conditions of 

 employment are the factors. Such figures cannot be explained by 

 differences of stock and inborn powers of resistance. 



Hendhede says that out of 10,000 deaths in later life, 2,700 die in 

 Copenhagen between the ages of 40 and 60 who would die in the 

 country between 60 and 90. 



1 The comparative mortality figures for phthisis in Britain are : 



Open Air Workers. 



Railway Engine Drivers and Farm Laborers 82 



Stokers 63 Gardeners and Nurserymen S3 



Gamekeepers 73 Fishermen 96 



Agriculturists 79 



Town and Factory Workers. 

 Chemical Manufacturers 96 Messengers and Porters (other- 

 Printers 290 wise than Railway) 368 



Furriers and Skinners 314 Costermongers and Hawkers. ... 516 



Brush Makers 314 Inn and Hotel Servants 533 



Tool, Scissors, etc., Makers 353 Do. Do. in London 667 



— Suppl. Vol. from Registrar General's 65th Annual Report, Publ. 1908. 



