[22] Text-Book of Human Physiology, p. 595.
[23] "A Text-Book of Human Physiology." By Austin Flint, Jr. M. D. New York, 1876. Page 589; see also page 674.
[24] See Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, June 20, 1876.
[25] In 1879 the total mortality in England, above the age of twenty, from all causes whatsoever, was 287,093. Of these deaths, the number occasioned by the sixteen causes above named, was 191,706, or almost exactly two-thirds.
[26] Even Japan, a country we are apt to consider as somewhat benighted, has far better statistical information at hand than the United States of America.
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