Disease v. War.
How much sanitary arrangements have to do with the health of the human race can be best tested by noting the difference of the ravages made by disease to that occassioned by -war. The dread Influenza has carried off, last January, 5000 persons in London, and in addition temporarily crippled ten times that number. In the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, that of Gettysburg, the Union Army lost 8,072 men and the Confederates 2,592. The whole Civil War cost during the three years, 110,000 lives, yet every year, 15,000 persons every month commit suicide I Sixty-two persons die from natural causes, a minute, equal to thirty three million of the human race a year.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 April 1892, Page 3
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119Disease v. War. Manawatu Herald, 12 April 1892, Page 3
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