THE DWELLING HOUSE

By the same Author.

Second Edition. With 6 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6s. 6d.

ESSAYS ON RURAL HYGIENE.

'A highly important book. The whole book is an educationin itself. It is a volume to be read and re-read equally by householdersand by professional sanitarians. Our only regret isthat amid the flood of hygienic literature which is year by yearturned loose upon the world, there are so few books of this type—fearless,honest, and scientific criticisms of existing errors,and full, likewise, of recommendations whereby these errorsmay be rectified.'—Glasgow Herald.

LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO., 39 Paternoster Row, London
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THE DWELLING HOUSE

BYGEORGE VIVIAN POORE, M.D., F.R.C.P.

Physician to University College Hospital
Fellow of the Sanitary Institute
Member of the Permanent Committee of the International Congress of Hygieneand Demography
Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Public Health, &c.
Author of 'Essays on Rural Hygiene'

Houses are built to Live in, and not to Looke on.... God Almightie

first planted a Garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of Humane Pleasures.

It is the Greatest Refreshment to the Spirits of Man; without which

Buildings and Pallaces are but Grosse Handy workes.—Bacon

Is this improvement? where the human breed

Degenerate as they swarm and overflow,

Till toil grows cheaper than the trodden weed,

And man competes with man, like foe with foe,

Till Death, that thins them, scarce seems public woe?

To gorge a few with Trade's precarious prize,

We banish rural life and breathe unwholesome skies

Campbell

WITH THIRTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1897

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PREFACE

This work is intended not merely to point out certaincommon defects in the Dwelling House, and to show howevils more or less necessary in towns may be avoided inthe country, but to call attention to the fact that ourmodern methods of sanitation, and the heavy taxation ofthe dwelling, inevitably increase overcrowding, and themoral and physical ills which follow in its train.

An attempt is made to review the great subject of thedisposal of house refuse in its political and scientificaspects, rather than from the point of view of the tradesmanor patentee.

The greater part of the ensuing chapters has beenpreviously published. Addresses delivered before the RoyalInstitution of Great Britain, the London Institution, theSa

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