Various forms of epidemic, endemic, and other disease produced by decomposing animal and vegetable substances, by damp and filth, and close and overcrowded dwellings prevail amongst the population in every part of the kingdom...That the population so exposed is less susceptible of moral influences, and the effects of education are more temporary than with a healthy population. The annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation are greater than the loss from death or wounds in any wars in which the country has been engaged in modern times. Edwin Chadwick, public health reformer, Report...from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain The arguments found in the above passage from Edwin Chadwick would most likely be challenged by: Members of middle-class Britain Working-class families in industrialized cities Supporters of the Communist Manifesto British subjects in African and Asian colonies

Various forms of epidemic, endemic, and other disease produced by decomposing animal and vegetable substances, by damp and filth, and close and overcrowded dwellings prevail amongst the population in every part of the kingdom...That the population so exposed is less susceptible of moral influences, and the effects of education are more temporary than with a healthy population. The annual loss of life from filth and bad ventilation are greater than the loss from death or wounds in any wars in which the country has been engaged in modern times. Edwin Chadwick, public health reformer, Report...from the Poor Law Commissioners on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain The arguments found in the above passage from Edwin Chadwick would most likely be challenged by: Members of middle-class Britain Working-class families in industrialized cities Supporters of the Communist Manifesto British subjects in African and Asian colonies