Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 298
te with literalaccuracy: Whatever can cause, or help to cause, discomfort, pain, sickness,death, vice, or crime — and whatever has a tendency to avert or destroy, ordiminish such cases — are matters of interest to the sanitarian; and thepowers of science and the arts, great as they are, are taxed… … Note. — States having immediate registration of deaths and requiring bur-ial permits are black. The only additions to the list since the Census of 1890are Maine (1891) and Michigan (1897). cerned. 1 And the crowning glory of the science to-day is the care it bestowsupon the weak, the ignorant, and…
Progress · Inventions
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