[18] The British Medical Journal, August 15, 1894, p. 381, reports a “Discussion on the Overcrowding of the Profession,” in which Dr. Frederick H. Alderson says:—“The very crowded condition of the medical profession concerns a very large body of the profession; neither is the evil limited to any particular section of it. Our physicians are too numerous, our surgeons alike too many, and our general practitioners are legion.”
[19] Quoted by Dr. Franz Hartmann in “Premature Burial.”
[20] Alas for the futility of human expectations of reform when left to the initiation of Governments—this was written twenty-seven years ago, and nothing has been done to remedy the evil!
[21] During the five years ending 1895 the population of France, where of all European countries premature burial is most in vogue, has increased by only 133,819, or, leaving out the immigration of alien population, the increase is under 30,000. The population for all practical purposes may be regarded as stationary.
[22] With reference to the burial customs in Ireland, the Kings County Chronicle, Parsonstown, September 17, 1896, says:—“Young children are buried the day after death, but adults are waked for two, and sometimes three nights.”
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—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.