THE DWELLING HOUSE _By the same Author._ Second Edition. With 6 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 6_s._ 6_d._ 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' 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 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.