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Title: Hygeia, a City of Health

Author: Benjamin Ward Richardson

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Language: English

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HYGEIA
A CITY OF HEALTH

BY

BENJAMIN WARD RICHARDSON M.D., F.R.S.

1876

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TO
EDWIN CHADWICK, C.B.

MY DEAR MR. CHADWICK,

_I wrote this Address with the intention of dedicating it to you, as
a simple but hearty acknowledgment by a sanitary student, himself well
ripened in the work, of your pre-eminent position as the living leader
of the sanitary reformation of this century.

The favour the Address has received indicates notably two facts: the
advance of public opinion on the subject of public health, and the
remarkable value and influence of your services as the sanitary
statesman by whom that opinion has been so wisely formed and directed.

In this sense of my respect for you, and of my gratitude, pray accept
this trifling recognition, and believe me to be,

Ever faithfully yours_,

B.W. RICHARDSON.

PREFATORY NOTE.

The immediate success of this Address caused me to lay it aside for
some months, to see if the favour with which it was received would
remain. I am satisfied to find that the good fortune which originally
attended the effort holds on, and that in publishing it now in a
separate form I am acting in obedience to a generally expressed
desire.

Since the delivery of the Address before the Health Department of the
Social Science Congress, over which I had the honour to preside, at
Brighton, in October last, every day has brought some new suggestion
bearing on the subjects discussed, and the temptation has been great
to add new matter, or even to recast the essay and bring it out as a
more compendious work. On reflection I prefer to let it take its
place in literature,