Stephen Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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Our authority is the annual report of the Department of Health of the City of New York for the year nineteen oh eight, in which appears the following statement.
A remarkable decrease in the death rate has taken place within the past forty years, a decrease comparing each decennial rate with the one immediately preceding, represented by seven, seven, and eighteen percent, respectively, and comparing that of the first decennium with the individual year under review, a decrease of forty-seven percent.
End of chapter one
Chapter two of the City That Was by Stephen Smith This Liberfox recording is in the public domain.
Chapter two A Great Awakening in England.
Cholera was approaching the shores of England.
The alarm of the people was intense.
The enormous devastation of that pestilence on its first and only previous visit to that country in eighteen thirty two were vividly recalled by the elder people.
The only known preventive measures were flight, fasting and prayer.
As the pestilence was believed to be a visitation of God on account of the sins of the people, the clergy petitioned the Prime Minister to proclaim a day of fasting and prayer with many expressions of sorrow at the prevailing national vices which had finally provoked the wrath of the Almighty.
The Prime Minister replied in substance as follows
Do works meet for repentance.
First make your homes and their surroundings clean and wholesome.
Then you may with propriety ask almighty God to bless your efforts at protection against the approaching epidemic.
This response of the highest official of the kingdom to the usually humble and devout petitions of the clergy, when the people were threatened with an epidemic, was received with profound astonishment by the religious classes, with ridicule by the masses of the people, but with commendation by sanitarians.
The popular agitation was great.
The clergy protested with
with solemn asseverations their belief that pestilences were always indications that national sins had become intolerable to the almighty, and only fastings and prayers could appease his wrath.
The people at large gave no heed either to the clergy's admonition to fast and pray, or to the prime minister's advice to clean their homes and their surroundings, but with their usual disregard of the domestic diseases with which they were constantly familiar, gave no thought to approaching danger and
But the sanitarians very earnestly urged the people of their respective localities to act upon the advice of the Prime Minister, assuring them that cholera was a disease which prevailed more generally and severely in localities and homes where there was the greatest amount of filth.
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