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is filled with descriptions of what they called malaria.
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Let me give you an example from the town in the West Country of Truro.
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Reporting to Chadwick, the reporting official said,
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"Passing into St.Mary's Parish,
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the proportion of sickness and deaths is as great as any part of Truro.
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But there's no mystery at all in the causation.
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Ill-constructed houses with decomposing refuse,
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clothes upon their doors and windows,
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open drains, bring the oozings of pigsties
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and filth to stagnate at the foot of the walls.
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Such are a few of the sources of disease,
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which even the breezes from the hills cannot dissipate."