Download or read book Second Annual Report of the Health Commissioner of Milwaukee (Thirteenth Annual Report of the Department) written by O. W. Wight and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Health Commissioner of Milwaukee (Thirteenth Annual Report of the Department): January, 1880 Britain. The traditions of its destructiveness, and the panic-struck words of the statutes which followed it, have been more than justified by modern research. Of the three or four millions who then formed the population of England, more than one-half were swept away in its repeated visitations. Its ravages were fiercest in the greater towns, where filthy and undrained streets afforded a constant haunt to leprosy and fever. In the burial-ground which the piety of Sir Walter Manny had purchased for the citizens of London, a spot whose site was afterwards marked by the Charter House, more than fifty thousand corpses are said to have been interred. Nearly sixty thousand people perished at Norwich, while in Bristol the living were hardly able to bury the dead. But the Black Death fell on the village almost as fiercely as on the town. More than one-half of the priests of Yorkshire are known to have perished; in the diocese Of Norwich two-thirds of the parishes were left without incumbents. The whole organization of labor was thrown out of gear. 'the Sheep and cattle strayed through the fields and corn, ' says a contemporary, and there were none left who could drive them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.