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ON THE DEATH-TOLL OF ENGLAND AND WALES. 



both national health and national wealth, and danger of 

 deterioration of race owing to the sickliness and stunted 

 growth of the children that survive. It is surely our duty, 

 then, to promote a more eflBcient system of sanitary admi- 

 nistration, to take full advantage of the facilities afforded 

 by recent legislation for the improvement of our towns, 

 to try to abate the practice of intemperance, and to en- 

 deavour to spread amongst all classes a knowledge of the 

 laws of health. 



Mortality in England and Wales. 



