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California, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia-between 100 and 200; and seven states-Arizona, Arkansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming-score less than 100. This table of detailed scores for each division of each department in connection with the dis- The illumination of Joseph Keeler, Esq., or On to the Land. Peter H. Bryce, M. A., M. D., Chief Medical Officer of the Department of the Interior. Canada. Pp. 97. Published by the American Journal of Public Health, Boston. Price, 50 cents. In this book the author depicts a number of methods, educating children along the lines of interesting incidents of historical and economic practical agriculture, rural credits, storage of importance connected with the settlement and products near the place of production, and mardevelopment of rural upper Canada.. He shows keting when called for, instead of as at present. that while money and most of the accompani- He might well have added here, the untaxing of ments of modern life were extremely scarce, yet improvements as in western Canada. He speaks of a development of a social life there was so much to fill in the lives of these early settlers that, as he makes one of his char- entirely possible in rural districts to offset the loss of similar things in the city. He does not acters say, "they were indeed halcyon days!" He shows how that up to 1861 practically all neglect to point out the advantages of country increase in the population had been in the rural life to many a person, the victim of or threatdistricts, only approximately 7 per cent. at that ened by disease acquired in the closer settled distime being in the cities, and how owin'g to a tricts, and that it provides opportunities for the variety of causes, which the Doctor quotes facts employment of the most natural and wholesome and figures to explain, the population in 1911, impulses of man. Woven into the last chapters of although largely increased in the cities, had not the book is a pleasant love story. The conditions in upper Canada are so nearly increased and in fact had decreased in most of the rural towns. He shows that although the alike those of a large portion of the older settled opportunities of acquiring wealth in the city are sections of the United States that the book is ordinarily greater, yet there are connected with well worth reading by all those who are concity life disadvantages so great that one may sidering the tendencies of the times for populawell ask if it is not worth while for many to re- tion to increase in the cities at the expense of the turn too rural pursuits. To make it possible to rural districts. T. E. BuUard. do this the Doctor suggests better agricultural
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: Mar 1, 1916
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