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On the Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Extract

The investigation of the different causes that tend to influence the health of the community, either injuriously or otherwise, is one of great public importance, particularly in a high-pressure age like the present—an age in which it is too much the custom to sacrifice all considerations of health and safety to a determined and eager desire to do in a few hours what our ancestors were content to do in as many days.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1863

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References

page 152 note * “The Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health.” From the Lancet. London: Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly.