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HYGEIA
A CITY OF HEALTH

BY

BENJAMIN WARD RICHARDSON M.D., F.R.S.

1876

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TO
EDWIN CHADWICK, C.B.


MY DEAR MR. CHADWICK,

_I wrote this Address with the intention of dedicating it to you, as
a simple but hearty acknowledgment by a sanitary student, himself well
ripened in the work, of your pre-eminent position as the living leader
of the sanitary reformation of this century.

The favour the Address has received indicates notably two facts: the
advance of public opinion on the subject of public health, and the