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to achieve this demographic transformation of the population.
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So, if infectious disease was destabilizing for the state
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and political order, a population subject to
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infectious disease moreover is unlikely to be educated
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and to be open to the moral influence of the clergy.
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And the absence of cleansing in towns, Chadwick felt,
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would lead also to demoralization and further depravity.
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Now, in all of this thinking, let's remember too
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at what was lost.
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A striking feature of Chadwick's view was
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the narrowness of its focus.
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The cause of ill health in Victorian Britain--