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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 education in itself. It is a volume to be read and re-read equally by householders and by professional sanitarians. Our only regret is that amid the flood of hygienic literature which is year by year turned 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 errors may be rectified.'—Glasgow Herald.
LONGMANS, GREEN, & CO., 39 Paternoster Row, London
New York and Bombay.
THE DWELLING HOUSE
BY GEORGE 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 Hygiene and Demography
Honorary Member of the Hungarian Society of Public Health, &c.
Author of 'Essays on Rural Hygiene'
WITH THIRTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1897
All rights reserved
PREFACE
This work is intended not merely to point out certain common defects in the Dwelling House, and to show how evils more or less necessary in towns may be avoided in the country, but to call attention to the fact that our modern methods of sanitation, and the heavy taxation of the dwelling, inevitably increase overcrowding, and the moral and physical ills which follow in its train.
An attempt is made to review the great subject of the disposal of house refuse in its political and scientific aspects, rather than from the point of view of the tradesman or patentee.
The greater part of the ensuing chapters has been previously published. Addresses delivered before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, the London Institution, the Sanitary Institute, and the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Nottingham, together with short papers communicated to the British Medical Association, the British Institute of Public Health, and the 'Practitioner,' have been incorporated with the text.
The author is greatly indebted to his friend, Mr. Thomas W. Cutler, F.R.I.B.A., for much valuable advice and assistance in the preparation of some of the illustrations; and he is similarly indebted to Mr. Arthur Blomfield-Jackson and the editors of the 'Lancet' and 'Practitioner.'
For permission to use the diagram illustrating the Model By-Laws of the Local Government Board (p. 109) the thanks of the author are due to Messrs. Knight & Co.
From Mr. George Pernet, B.A., M.R.C.S. &c., the author has received much assistance and many valuable suggestions during the passage of the work through the press.
32 Wimpole Street,
July 1897
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Defects in Planning | 1 |
| II. | The Sanitation of the Isolated Dwelling | 32 |
| III. | Slop-water | 69 |
| IV. | Overcrowding: Its Causes and Effects | 90 |
| V. | The Circulation of Organic Matter | 125 |
| VI. | The Soil in its Relation to Disease and Sanitation | 152 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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