health-rates

Updated: July 16, 2025

Suppose the young women of thirty years ago had been thoroughly instructed in hygienic laws: would not the effects of such instruction be perceptible in our present health-rates and death-rates? Let us begin now to affect the health-rates and death-rates of thirty years hence. And it will do no harm to instruct young men also in such matters.

Abby Morton Diaz - A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household