Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 296
e 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 to… … 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…
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