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posure ia Iu bhe vt Gioucester mo vie sole Tand, | 1 
ander the alternate sy — one-half always ^ tà 1 in 
roots and fodder crop as food for bare . we her 
half to to be in grain — Wheat, Barle S, &c. ; and it 
was shown with one-fifth ofthe land — ien in 
— 
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tivation producing roots and fodder | 
food for the the maintenance of all the number — kind of 
the land when 
was in n ita naturel pasture, and that the remaining 
: produce Wheat, Barley, and Oats of 
more money ns elas than the natural pasture produced 
Now, if we apply this preps x to que 37,075,820 
acres which we have shown may be f under 
arable cul! no fear 
shall not be p h 
ngs will be re — [to hous 0 the "stock K. - — es other 
permanen es >q 
s do this § 
to be inv 1 f»: bie conversion of 30,000, 000. acres yer s -— 4 into 
pale cultiva’ 
CHRONICLE AND 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
tina, measles, and Uhoopingeonghi ; an and 5, 
dis eases of infor nt dn 
to 
935 
RS’ 
may be req - 
the nervous 
he mortality of 
d bot of the scale of wet 
appears th at th 1 rey ween them nearly 
ee to —— mortality D M eurs exclusi — from 
e five classes of disease thus selected :— 
AGE — ALITY — 1 
. per aere may be the expense 
nd to — te this arable land the fermer will 
— à an additional 6l. per acre to his Pap, 
which will amount to 150,000, 100.900 
It will therefore require 100,000 IVING. 
7 TEN e 
those 
andlord paing his Disease 
In selected ruyal districts 
tion beca — f power England and Wales 
* Se 
y be armer 
must — should not be less than 1 O per cent., which is 
a fair - centage on piş ' capital, as he can only turn 
12 months. 
ET "mortality 
uld be reduced 
ct 
appear ‘that if the exce 
» rom these more preventible diseases co 
wh 
brought 
tivation, we shall have that 
ng popnlation 
for their maintenance. 
aA — England and Wales "nea m 
A A E and tht tiere da ^ 
of uneultivated making in all 
Prom which, if we the .. 
— 240,000 
,981,000 
i 15, 
po 
000 dhe of the land, the. aeta of n 
It ishing that 7 dowers do see the e zo E hich i 
Seah — ete as well as to the. community 
whic h the: permanent a. ri Hg of the eir estates 
mee in a pecuni en of v The 
essary build i 
converting "of the worthless. pasture lr land. into 
d yg: 
om of the scale. I think no one 
will deny that thé jrevilohes and fatality. — fu five 
y the e 
22 of pesetas; sani 
which are under arable cultivation, we shall have 17,502,151 
Which » in permanent pape re, —— . 
cheap hen — we 
f — ve 
E me 
ure land, do > fifth of the: — le .. 8,000,000 
be in perpetual pasture ; two-fifths .. 6,000,000 
any of the present speculations. J. IM. 
Co 
-— causes 
fev 1 es drained pl 
n ally some impur 
the hom 
PR EVENTI BLE DISEASE. 
ra poison ot 
xperience ite ws that only boe 
Eus of organie s substances can it dev 
| erushin 
OMPREHENSIVE an of t 1 but al 
of sickness and are — 
bo ucing and fodder 
ve f od for "all * stock whicha — at present 
e on the land in its ans "e the 
remaining two-fifths will produce grai: a 
Wheat, at say 3 quarters per acre 
ED. o 4 quarters per acre 
Oats at 5 quarters per acre 
S. 
divisions Teqnired for 
coinciden 
and do 
rds 
eath 
essary for a sure and st 8 t à advance on this su 
ich is qu 
shops, and from inhaling dust, fff or other 
They are not Mh: impirities, The death-rates of young children 
h the limits of any sanitary ju risdiction, affo rd instructive test of s i 
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4 : tl 
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* 
,000 in fodder crops. detailed inquiries th —— w- Generabs —— will places. The sensitive and deli of very y 
TR — not avail, An E cdit in the his promt 2 a a show more directly the “influences of their 
And uncultivated p. e * "y sed 205010007 ie : — — ould De It is naturally found t resisting const 
peat 053 Au ald side” virago of m marriages ; but it should Dm far as recur Se of i infants arb rent Mr pod are more 
Prom this deduct the land in cultivation 2 in the hands S ho drag on a. debilita- 
— one oa not terminate fat ally. ist 
Aud there re wii ht be procured is — ir the weekly bote vigour bot h of body and mind. In Mr. Simon’s 
Of this we d only: take 5 000.000 meme, ‘a aaa publication of illnesses occurring in the publ establish- report to the Board of Health in 1858 it is stated tha = 
the rest in its natural state. m metropolis, which was for — e. than 23,000 children under 5 years 
We shall adopt the same system of cultivation " published by the General Board of Health from in -|age die of inflammation of the respiratory organs, besides 
[zr one-fifth —— pasture and tw PME — ei — -. — of nearly 4000 whose deaths are attributed to phthi isis, 
i root an 6 nd of ealth me is. But though t f 1that 
the two-fifths we propose to h ART re not as complete as might be desired, yet, the corresponding death-rate, in proportion to the 
Qin. under the abie interpretation of Dr. Farr, they g s | infantine population, 2 from koh be shied AM 
het; at 8 quarters per acre .. ^ 600,000 broad and intelligible results, In D de HM district of 2 to 2,897 in the 
percer 700,000 | Which we should direct our effo ae it is d esirable The acute n infectious us diseases, y inni: 
0 i quarters per acre sap ppi on : swa à) 
E 6,400, 
. — 
— 0000s 
13,500,000 
27,400,000 
++ | 7,900,000 
11,700,000 
ee e POS o sltivated lana e av ken from the. 
€ vai (me 7 ev ^ 
| EISE d. e 4,900,000 of a t] Boeth resten ( bounties with Chat from th 
In all l 17005551; from this we 0 tis the Less diete. who occupy: ae south-eastern i 1 Hs Eng . 
mast deduct til in persons living. es infantile death-rate from ese disorders. mine 
Piel dah iu. Se ‘under cultivation. in Paai natural features, and th k to be about 23 times as high as 
— a ++ 11,222,551 in a natural sta i 1,000, n are -  Fhrong ho ane wu acad ed the " of 
Wwe hell talks 0,000, sores: pe on the other hand, th nts we have late ion o the 
Rae ag k — — and e them many of the evils that we most den: lens which arises from.the poverty of the parents, 
1 di bey ou pas e takes moth * 
000;000 under chief evils w. see to remove are d absent, homes, ving t po ck ithout proper n 
Minis or or. url in and fodder MEA » Mer: * 4 fair AN t ar its for food and change o of 
While, then, persons die at the rate 7 1 17 ieted b : 
ed “6,000,000 producing food for UR 100. in these standard districts, above 22 in 1000 ing * for. the calm ES produce, though. it is only 
700,000 at, say 8 qrs. per acre. 2,100,000 | die on the average of all England, and } b, to which they 
300,000 at, a 4 qrs. pind gore 1500 000 | urban district; and as 419,815 persons died in 1857, hild 
000,000 1 Say 4 rs. per 3,500, 00 the mortality of the rest of ngaud had da idet this ENGAL the remaining ora attri 
à ; ter than it was in these je tricts, 91,652 lives table to impure air, is quite sufficient to a 
16,800,000 | wonld have been pre: ear, of the want of proper sanitary con 
L England has been divided by the Mus Generalinto| But apa records tell us not only of penalty 
two classes of districts of about equal populations, one | we are paying in the lives and comfi people 
consisting mainly urban and the other of rural | by the br 215 of sanitary laws, but also of the lives that 
"Quarters of | inhabitants, and it is f. that the rural death-rate have been saved and the strength t been 
Oats. reaches only 22 in 1000, whi e urban is 26. The preserved by the practi applicatio; sanitary 
7,500,000 cts we p a n T the theory that t un. science. Returns from 19 towns in which drainage 
6,400,000 | healthi ropor o the density o the Public Health Act 
show that the mera which previous to those 
sanitary measures averaged im in in, 1000, um Du them 
2 in 1000 ; and as ee t a popula- 
of 468,000, the sa lives 
? 
ness 
po pulation ; but iis tke eei "branches of the subject, 
uires elucidatio: of the 
which epidemic apar ae prid “veal, 1 believe, lead to] 
some remarkable conclusions, for the different aped 
47,000,000 
Tsion vetting 30,000,000 acres of land from it 
eee may Moptng the alternate system of H 
“a gradi increased p 
require to be drained, additional band. 
ic diseases to & 
rig he age 15.75, compan yasi; mean 
ections; of five years before the patie, 8 
ng of scarla- action, and that of five de es Dia rate is 
