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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt:... CHAPTER XIII COMPULSORY SANITATION HAVING established compulsory sanitation in every city having a mortality exceeding the maximum limit of tolerable contamination, the first question which arises is this: how can we fix this limit of contamination? R. Mace and Ed. Imbeaux--hygienists of world-wide authority--affirm that the coefficient of mortality corresponding to a model city must not exceed seventeen deaths per year for each thousand inhabitants. French legislation causes the value of the maximum tolerable limit to vary, by fixing each time, the average of the coefficients given out by all the urban agglomerations. This is equivalent to imposing on all those cities whose mortality exceeds the total average indicated, the obligation of submitting to compulsory sanitation. In the message which the chief of the executive power of the Republic of Uruguay sent, in December, 1911, to the general congress of Montevideo, submitting a project of law to be executed by the state concerning works of sanitation and the provision of drinking water in the cities and villas of Campafia, the admissible maximum of contamination was fixed at nineteen deaths per year for each thousand inhabitants. If we accepted for our cities an even higher coefficient, say twenty, and were assured that the sanitary authority, by means of strenuous action, would reduce the urban mortality to the said proportion, then in the City of Mexico alone there would be saved yearly more than ten thousand deaths, and a much higher number of illnesses would be prevented--we completely lack statistical data on morbidity--which detract much energy from the national effort, and considerably increase the unproductive consumption. Can a better field be found for the fruitful employment...