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Parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark. 41

The table which I shall present to you, points out the localities in which deaths from
zymotic diseases have happened, and in of importance. Where we find the greatest
numbers of zymotic diseases, there we shall find the greatest amount of crime, immorality,
ness, poverty, and premature death. There is nothing strange in litis; there is merely
cause and sequence. Breathe a contaminated air, and you breathe disease and its results.
The atmosphere is purest on the mountain tops; most impure in our alleys and courts.
two the utmost variation may bo met with. The air of towns is loaded with
dust and impurity of every kind. If we could but see its foulness, wo should dread to
breathe it. Every impurity passes through the gateway of the lungs into the blood, affecting
every part of the system, but more especially the brain and nervous system. Dr. Angus
examined some time ago the air of a large town, by means of washing a portion of
the ??? bottles of pure water. One drop of this contaminated water was found to contain