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[The effect of the means]

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  • Title: [The effect of the means]
  • Date: 29 March 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00711
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 29 March 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Tara Ballard Hannah Purtymun Kaylen Michaelis Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "[The effect of the means]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00711.xml (TEI)
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☞ The effect of the means adopted for checking disease in England, France, and Germany, during the past century, is such that, while formerly one out of every thirty of the population died each year, now the average is one to forty-five.

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