Excerpt from Public Relief of Sickness
Because it is so easily understood that sickness causes poverty, and that poverty causes sickness, it may be thought that the problem of sickness and poverty consists in some way of breaking permanently the vicious circle. This is, however, beyond present hope. No one knows, for instance, how much sickness is not caused by poverty; yet this sickness causes poverty in its turn. Again, it is known that normally not more than a quarter of poverty - the meaning of poverty is that of a standard of living which does not include the bare necessities of life - is caused by sickness; yet the other three-quarters cause sickness in their turn. In other words, new sickness not caused by poverty, new poverty not caused by sickness continue to flow in, and the vicious circle, as soon as it is broken, reunites.
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