In all these lodging-houses rules exist for the purpose of insuring cleanliness, sobriety, carefulness, and general propriety of conduct; any infraction of which subjects the offender to immediate expulsion. For the sake of those who choose to avail themselves of the opportunity, Scripture readings are appointed to take place in the common room every evening at 9 o’clock; and copies of the Scriptures, with other well-chosen books, are left in charge of the superintendent for distribution among the lodgers, in the hope that they may thus be induced to occupy their leisure to advantage. In the construction of all these establishments, equally, the greatest pains have been taken to bring sanitary science to bear on the comfort, and convenience, and health of the inmates. Ventilation, drainage, facilities for decency and for cleanliness, have in every instance been made the leading considerations of the architect.[27] [27] The advantages of these admirable institutions may now be spoken of from longer experience. In a very remarkable pamphlet just published by Dr. Southwood Smith, _On the Results of Sanitary Improvement_, it is recorded that there has been no case of typhus fever in any one of the model-dwellings since they were first opened, and that their exemption from cholera has been as complete as from typhus. In the Metropolitan Buildings, during three years, the average annual mortality has been only 1·36 per cent. For a lower class of population, very similar advantages have been procured by the regulations of the Common Lodging-House Act. Dr. Smith mentions that in 1308 regulated metropolitan lodging-houses (numbering at least 25,000 lodgers) there had not occurred a single case of fever during the quarter ending the 23rd of October; yet, before they were under regulation, twenty cases of fever have been received into the London Fever Hospital from some one single house in the course of a few weeks.--J. S., 1854. * * * * *