Excerpt from The Health of Nations, Vol. 1 of 2: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick, With a Biographical DissertationI accepted the task with the expectation that the work might be completed in from twelve to fifteen months, but long before that time had arrived, the abundance of material which was placed at my disposal, accruing from the labours of one of the busiest lives during sixty active years, was sufficient to call for fully three times the period originally contemplated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.