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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."
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Everywhere the reports discovered disease,
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and they correlated the disease with such findings
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as poisonous vapor, morbific effluvia,
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filth, obnoxious effluvia, poisonous exhalations,