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The Limits of Sanitary Reform. [March, 
Has a P the very vcot of y ou,- system of competitive examina- 
! . e Tt is a known fafit that on medical investigation a con- 
siderable proportion of the successful candidates for the India 
Civil Serviced ave been found to be suffering from albumi 
u "a the result of the recent strain upon the nervous system 
Of course accurate statistics of the number of candidates, 
successful and unsuccessful, physically injured by piepaiing 
for ‘‘ an open examination ” cannot be obtained. Govern- 
ment would assuredly discourage and thwart any . at ^ m P 
™ this direction. Could the anti-hygienic results of this 
scheme be fully laid before the nation they would almost 
unanimously decide that some more excellent way cf se- 
leCtin 0- candidates for appointments must be adopted. 
But we have no time to enlarge upon this part of the 
subieCt Public elementary education has been also cleverly 
convened into a machine for the promotion of general 
debih V The disclosures recently brought forward by Di. 
Crichton Browne are still fresh in the public mind No less 
Cnchton & 1 made by officials to keep their own 
1 aWthose of the nation closed against these startling 
^la“on?°and 0 ^ h omewhat lame 
X S er a atv d e “ -r 
r U sn S r’e tn education ” is’the Satanic device ol “ payment 
b^fpseudo-] results.” But on this subjedt also we cannot 
St 7t has n be a e r fasserted that the Englishman of to-day is not 
• r inr nhvsicallv to his forefathers of fifty or a bundled 
vears ago We question whether this conclusion rests upon 
years ago. 1 avoid a discussion for 
wanting let us admit that the 
country gentleman, farmer, farm-labourer, or navvy of tins 
“ ”•/ „ healthy and vigorous as was respeftively the 
country gentleman or farmer, &c., of the year 1830, and m 
Uke manner that the town-bred workman or shop-assistant 
of 1880 is physically equal to his predecessors of half a 
Ce Even then there remains the grave fa£t that a far greater 
proportion of the nation is placed under less favourable 
