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"Preventable disease does not kill only; too often it maims or enfeebles,
so that in a substantial—perhaps in a very large—proportion of cases it subtracts
the patients whom it may ultimately spare from the sum of the vigorous and
adds them to the sum of the relatively inefficient. If in any large number our
weakly members are left as such by the passing shadow of disease, how can we
despise the labours of the Sanitary Reformer?"
(Professor T. Clifford Allbutt.)