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Excerpt from International University Lectures, Delivered by the Most Distinguished Representatives of the Greatest Universities of the World, at the Congress of Arts and Science, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, Vol. 10 During the first half or even three quarters of this cen tury of urban development now under consideration, the typical new industrial community was enormously hampered through the existence of evils that for a long time were not clearly understood to be curable. With the creation of factories and the concentration of industry in towns, rural hamlets were depopulat'ed by the decay of old handicrafts, and a rustic population crowded into towns that were in no manner prepared to receive such accessions. The results were painful and seemingly disastrous. There was overcrowding to an extent now almost incredible. So unwholesome were the surroundings that epidemics were the rule rather than the exception. Invalidism reduced the economic effectiveness of the workers; the average expect ancy of life was very low; infant mortality was so sweeping that only a small percentage escaped; and thus, as a net te sult, the death-rate of every considerable urban community was to a marked extent higher than the birth-rate, and town life and industrial progress could only be maintained by the influx of surplus population from the country districts for fresh sacrifice on the altar of modern industrialism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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