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Excerpt from English Public Health Administration The essentials for healthy existence are the same to-day as they were at the dawn of history but as numbers have increased and society has become more complex, so have these essentials become increasingly difficult of attain ment. Mankind has gradually understood and recognised the importance of air, water, food, Shelter, and clothing, sufficient in quantity and pure in quality, and, in various ways, has made collective efforts to secure them. Out of these efforts have grown the mass of legislation, network of authorities, army of officials, and the numerous and costly engineering works which to-day exist in all civilised States for the purpose of securing and maintaining the. 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.