HEALTHR. 
that a io nuniber of aged people are cut off by afthma, 
and by the winter-cough, “fo that ‘ of thofe aged above 60 
rears by much the greateit number die in the coldeft-months, 
and the feweft in then middle of enwelg (Heberden,) the 
fatal effects of the oan fealons will b very obvious. hd 
e 
.”’ (See Corp, eden: 
Il. Its effects in poweny difeafes.) "The fat is dire@tly the 
s there adduced will evince. - In ad- 
dition to the sefesastiek re made, fee Dr. Heberden on the 
Increafe, &c. of Difeafes, bP. 55 and 58. Edin. Med. and 
Surg. oe Noe ili. p. 247- 
The con of fcrofula with the cold and humidity of 
our climate e likewife very ially in the 
for African children, brought over to this country for edu- 
ra Leone company, ftates, they all became 
d in the latter ftate. 
abandon the plan. It cannot be Heaney we a Taek. @ 
that the delufive attempts to harden the contains of chil- 
dren, born in this climate, by thin ngs conitant expofure 
to the cold air in winter, & is to the 
uporm the 
perfea a thy evolution of the animal fyftem i 
prevented 5 ‘and the foundation is Jaid for fcrofula, pomeeog 
tion, ‘and other chronic difeafes. See Ann. _— Rev 
ii. — p- 130. 
py of Manafosori &Sc. on Health. 
ee 
Amo ng t the ient to the aes and 
manufactures of s mules: times, there are many which contri- 
bute to diffafe in the atmofphere certain effluvia or rains, 
fome of which are ree Hagen in their {mell, or difficult to re- 
fpire, and others, though not fo obvious to the fenfes, are ne- 
verthelefs prejudicial to health. the whole, however, the 
ivia 
ie health is not by : For, 
im the firft place, a di adele fmell is by no meansa cert 
criterion of an w phere ; and, in the fecond, 
the se cof fore metals - fire, rareerag 
air, may b be fo 
chimnice, oe other wah aan oo paiek as to crt ae 
, ven my miftakes have been committed by writers on this 
& 
» and difference in principle has been 
pence ry in legal decifions ref seco, Si degree of nuifance 
in fuch cafes. a — the fmoke from coal- 
fwes was deemed, bot one of the 
and foreigners, 
eer rong ten the unhealthinele of London. __ This was. 
vs, . 95-) 5 and Evelyn, who- iblithed, a 
eta  Fumifa on,” § i bn 
are st aie of fmoke and falphur, fo full< ftink and 
darknefs,’? m — this ¢ us and ancient city wraps her 
itately head; hecafirms, that in the year 1664, when 
extremely 
1, —— of danger’; and even thofe ee which are 
7 
‘ab 
‘the danger which mi: tht thence arife to the public. 
Newcaftle was befieged, and ‘coals not to be pro o¢ured it - 
London, ** divers gardens and orchards, eee in the very 
heart of London oT in particular, my 
Hartford’s, in the ne and on lord 
f. otions 
to remark, that while this furppoled caufe of unhealthinefs 
has been augmented to an incalculable degree, the actual 
condition of the metropolis, in point of falubrity, has been 
greatly improved. 
n like manner, the re angers in which various ¢Mavia 
are aco ed from animal an vegetable matters, im -con- 
pe 
ed 
and 
Mf 
manufaétories of cat-gut, tanneries, and fl 
the effects of thefe corrapted ee which, when dif. 
fufed in the neighbourhood, form an atmofphere very dil- 
agreeable to breathe, may be obviat ty by proper care. 
commonly fuch ese eager is not neceflary to the 
operations nd only occ rs from the animal fub- 
so being allowed to remain too leapt in the manufactory, 
It is only neceffary, therefore, 
demand their bani 0 
flaughter-houfe, indeed, when the filth oa — are a 
lected in heaps to putrefy, i 
—e 
animals which t kill, nor fuffer them to accumulate, 18 
fufficient to aA any difguftin y effects 
arifing from flaughter-houfes. 
Of the ‘nisl @ories in which effuvia are driven off by 
fire, thofe of the mineral acids, ones were formerly deemed 
injurious, have been found by experience tg: = 
ions of mercury, lead, copper, ant <4 
ons, and arfenic, and areal fomewhat dangerous Sk 
ure : 
ee that 
: improvements of « tai : ‘ 
cpa ith vga to hay es 
manufattories from: their cities. (Sea x Repor of a 
aan Inftitute. of Paris, 1 1806, a op oem rae 
p- 85.—Alfo, im — Samat =p Med. and and Surg : 
Shag 
SR PT a eS 
vol. ti. p. 290 
The 7 yore el ia boat then, a spre “stn 
the fore tieccetede atl ly dependent upon Z 
