HEALTH. 
that a sia nuniber of aged people are cut off by afthma, Newcaftle was belieged, and ‘coals not to be prod 
pera by Si w inperacad ge, fo that * of oe aged above a Londen, ** ee gardens. and bettie Nad Ma im oa very 
pletely prove tee fallacy “of the popular opinions, that thive agi oe the like, either ects or Sec to their. great a allonith. 
is fomething wholefome in a sharp froft, and that « a green ment.’? In refutation of fuch notions, however, it isf 
winter makes a fat a. _ (See Corp, under fe&t. to remark, that while this fuppofed caufe of unhealthinefs 
Il. dts ag in Ys ucing difeafes.) "Che faét is dire&tly thé has been augmented to an incalculable d egree, the actual 
reverfe, as t ftatements there adduced:will evince. - In ad- condition of the metropolis, in point of falubrity, has been 
dition ‘ es safesesibil there made, fee Dr. Heberden on the greatly improved. 
eninge &e. of ae fi 55 and 58, Edin, Med. and like manner, the manufaétories, in which various eMavia 
ear —— vol, ili. are gti from animal and vegetable matters, im con- 
our pola is fekeseibe very rime efpecially i in the con- prejudicial to the public — when they are con 
er 
latitude. Mr. Pearfon, who fuperintended an eftablifhment colour manufaétories, as of seni and in pdr 0, e° paper- 
for African children, brought over to this country for edu- mills, &c. the i which arife from the fermenting and 
ly to ‘tho: 
cation, by the Sierra Leone company, ftates, they all became decompofing matters, can angerous only to em~ 
{crofulous or confumptive, and died in the latter ftate. ployed about xs works, and in immediate — of the ° 
“ It is remarkable,” he obferves, «that boys brought from veffels and’ apparatus. ‘They ceafe to be deleterious the mo- 
tropical climates, from the age off eight to 12, almoft uni- ment they are diffufed and combined with the exvdtdl air, 
formly become fcrofulous, They bear the firft winter tole- and cannot affe& the inhabitants of neighbouring d ‘- 
rably well, but droop eee the fecond, and the third gene- Even where animal matters are Hable to putrefy, as in 
rally proves fatal to ote copfurspties fymptoms manufatories of cat- ut, tanneries, and flaughter 
were a metimes med by fwelling and. {uppuration of the - the effe&ts of thefe corrupted exhalations, which, when dif. 
glands, enlargement of the bones, &c.; but, in females par- fufed in the neighbourhood, form an atmofphere very dil. 
ticularly, confumption was ofes the: primary complaint. able to breathe, may be obviated by proper cares 
‘Thefe fatal effects of the climate rendered it neceflary to Mott i Tary to 
abandon the plan. cannot be dout ~we apprehend, operations going on, and en ly occurs from the animal fnb+ 
that the delufive attempts to rants the conftitution of chil- ftances being allowed to remain too long in the manufactory, 
dren, born in this climate, by thin c clothing, — expofure or'in too high a temperature. Itis only neceflary, t therefore, 
to the cold air in winter, &c., are very to the in- to canfe the materials to be frequently renewed, in order to 
fluence of a new climate upor ‘the African chi dren ; for the prevent their corruption, and to keep the place clean. In 
perfec healthy evolution of the animal fyftem is thus this refpeét fsaghter-hontes are sandal with fome incon- 
prevented ; and the foundation is laid for fcrofula, ge venience ; but this is ny no means of fo ferious a nature asta 
tion, and other chronic difeates: See Ann. Med. Rev, demand their banifiment without the limits of cities. A 
ii. 1809, p. 130. flaughter-houfe, indeed, gros the filth and blood a 
Aaffuence of Manufadtorie, &c.on Health. lected in heaps to putrefy, is peftilence itfelf; but deste 
offals are regularly removed it es to am 
the variou 8 operations s; fubfervient to the arts and Hence a little attention on the part of the magiftrate, that 
pcnctatenes of modern times, wicks are many which contri- butchers do not throw out the blood and refule of the 
bute to diffufe in the atmofphere certain — or vapours, animals which they kill, nor — them to accumulate, 1 
fome of which are Paes Re e in their fmell, or difficult to re- fufficient to obviare any difguiting and dais effects 
fpire, and others, though not fo obvious to the fenfes, are ne-arifi ing from flaughter-houfes. 
verthelefs prejudicial to bcalituilChy ees edesti however,the © Of the manufaories in which effuvia are déiven off by 
public health: is not much affeéted. by fuch effiuvia For, - thofe of the mineral acids, which were formerly deemed 
m the firft place, a —— {mell is by no means a certain extremely — have been found by experience to be 
erjterion of an unwholeiome atmofphere ; and, in the fecond, deftitute of danger and even thofe efluvia, which are dif- 
¥ ng a us, 
- together the danger which might thence arife to the public. _ ie the aon : fe ore ; 
Snes nithakes nave been committed by wr Z this oe i momar ae 
Jed, and confiderable. difference in’ prine chiety onfine ite attention to the a 
fted in legal decifi refpectin ee girs add ner i 
im fuch cafes. “In the 17th century the fmoke f $ the ienprowemente of which thefe: prc ceffes. are ful 
es was deemed, both by natives foreigners, one of the h, i ftily bann™ 
fes of the unhealthinefs of London. ‘their cities. (See a Report of the 
er eiper a, Mea jor Graunt {Obf. eaeat Mor- 3, 1806, Amnales de de Chimie, tom: lie. 
paint Po sie GS ger yn, Edinburgh Med. and Surg+ ‘Jourmah 
rcthe “Tae zed flr, fo. of he po bth then as appears fr 
darknefs,’? in — this glorious a nts; is greatly dependent wpon a 
itately head ; aud he-affirms,. ‘hati he yar dacion: a on prego es 4 
