THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Keystone View Company 



NEW YORK SKY-LINE^ FROM JERSEY DOCKS 



It has been said that there is no wave on the sea of world commerce but sends a ripple 

 to London. Equally true is it that no land suffers without bringing a pang of pain to New 

 York's heart, for all countries have contributed of their peoples, and all lands of their 

 tongues, to make this the modern Rome toward which all roads of migration lead. 



preventive medicine in combating "catch- 

 ing" diseases than in the metropolis. 



INCREASING POPULATION, DECREASING 

 DEATH RATE 



Since 1865 New York territorial ex- 

 pansion has been important, but the in- 

 creased population per block has been 

 even more noteworthy. Increasing den- 

 sity of population always means multi- 

 plying problems of sanitation, but the 



health authorities have met every such 

 increase with a decrease of death rate. 



There were proportionately only half as 

 many deaths from pulmonary tuberculo- 

 sis in the decade from 1906 to 191 5 in- 

 clusive as there were from 1876 to 1885. 

 There were only one-third as many deaths 

 from typhoid, one-fifth as many from 

 diphtheria, one-sixth as many from scar- 

 let fever, and only half as many deaths 

 of babies under one year of age. 



