Domestic Economy

Domestic Economy.  One of the writers of this book Arthur Newsholme strongly advocated improvement of public health by state intervention, such as national health insurance, sanitary measurement, hospitals and sanatoriums for the isolation of persons with contagious disease. Some of these proposals for public health interventions were described in a seminal paper in 1919, with the following abstract:

"There is much illness that might have been avoided if there had been an organized system of state medicine," says Sir Arthur Newsholme, speaking of England. He would give a freer hand to the health officer who measures up to the standard. England's chief defect lies in the existence of small and inefficient local health bodies.

Newsholme lived through a time wherein England, and many other countries in the western world, saw a demographic transition characterized by an exponential growth of the population since halfway the nineteenth century, which he explained both by a rise in fertility and mortality since the early nineteenth century, followed by a decline of mortality since halfway the nineteenth century followed by a decline in fertility after 1875. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Newsholme)

Domestic Economy published in 1902. No Edition Stated. 340 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering. B&W illustrations throughout.  Both hinges are good thus the boards are in place. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper which is ripped. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners.  Moderate tanning to spine, with scuffing and soiling to boards.  https://hungrytraveller.com.au/3d-flip-book/domestic-economy/