Former health of gaols as compared with the present state 211 Effects of sanitary measures of prevention on the health of prisoners 214 Comparison of the experience of sickness amongst different classes of people 216 Amount of sickness experienced by the labouring classes 217 Defects of Insurance tables 218 Effects of sanitary measures in the prevention of disease in the army and navy 219 _Cost to tenants and owners of the public measures for drainage, cleansing, and the supplies of water, as compared with the cost of sickness_:— 222 Cost of measures of prevention as compared with the cost of sickness and mortality 222 Means of payment for improved accommodation 227 Impolicy of exemptions of tenements from proper charges 229 Injurious effects of exemptions of labourers’ tenements 230 Inability of workmen to improve their own condition 231 Necessity of extrinsic aid for the improvement of the condition of the working classes 232 _Employers’ influence on the health of workpeople, by means of improved habitations_:— 233 Advantages to labourers of holding tenements in connexion with their employments 233 Instance of a superior moral and sanitary condition enjoyed by workers in a cotton factory 236 Elevation of a manufacturing population by improvements in the condition of their dwellings 238 Most advantageous construction of manufactories for the health of the workpeople 240 _The employers’ influence on the health of workpeople_:— 245 By modes of payment which do not lead to temptations to intemperance 245 By the promotion of personal cleanliness 253 By the ventilation of the places of work and the prevention of noxious fumes, dust, &c. 256 By promoting respectability in dress 261 Employers’ or owners’ influence in the improvement of habitations and sanitary arrangements for the protection of the labouring classes in the rural districts 261