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Disease and Its Causes

CHAPTER XII
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It is probable that the future will see an extension rather than a diminution of mass labor.
2.

The increase in urban life is as conspicuous as the increase in industrialism.

In 1880, twenty-nine and five-tenths per cent of the population was urban and seventy and five-tenths per cent was rural; in 1910, forty-six and three-tenths per cent was urban and fifty-three and seven-tenths was rural, the increase being most marked in cities of over five hundred thousand inhabitants.

Of the total increase in population between 1900 and 1910, seven-tenths per cent was in the cities and three-tenths per cent in the country.

City life in itself is not necessarily unhealthy and there are many advantages associated with it.


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