As a champion of individual liberty, I would say that those who in country places wish for water-closets should pay for them, and those who, for conscience' sake, do not pollute the rivers or starve the soil should not be taxed to pay for the misdeeds of those who do.
FOOTNOTES
[3] Discourse delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Friday, April 24, 1896.
[4] Essays on Rural Hygiene, 2nd ed. 1894. Longmans.
[5] Delivered before the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society on Oct. 30, 1895.
[6] Parkes' Hygiene, 8th edition, p. 10.
[7] Bacteria and their Products, p. 394. Walter Scott, 1891.
[8] Vol. i., p. 249.
[9] Essays on Rural Hygiene, 2nd edition. Longmans, 1894.
INDEX
- Andover, garden at, 37, 159
- — well at, 63
- Animals, housing of, 59
- Anthrax, 153
- Aspect of dwelling, 13
- Bacterium coli commune, 142
- Bedroom windows, 21
- Building regulations, 104
- — societies, 91
- Bungalow facing south, 13
- Cellarage window, 28
- Cellars, 27
- Cholderton experimental farm, 163, 167
- Cholera, 154
- Circulation of organic matter, the, 125
- Classification of refuse, 84
- Construction of wells, 61
- Corridors, the ventilation of, 9
- Cost of the dwelling, the, 112
- Defects in planning, 1
- Diphtheria, 153
- Dry catch privy, 39
- — method of treating urine, 49
- — methods, 32, 49
- — refuse, 89
- — urinals, 55
- Earth-closets, indoor, 44
- Enteric fever, 154
- Fauna of death, the, 135
- Filtration gutters, 78
- —, intermittent, 83
- Flora of excrements, the, 137
- Garden at Andover, 37, 159
- Generation of heat by decaying refuse, 161
- Hospital construction, 9, 10
- Hotel bedrooms, 19
- House, the typical London, 3
- Houses, damp, 26
- Housing of animals, 59
- Humification, 33
- Indoor earth-closets, 44
- Isolated dwelling, sanitation of the, 32, 41
- Larders, 30
- Local taxation, 147
- London house, the typical, 3
- — mortality, 144
- Malaria, 170
- Marylebone small-pox outbreak, the, 143
- 'Model' by-laws, 107
- Mortality, London, 144
- Overcrowding, 90
- — final conclusions, 123
- — remedies for, 115
- Pail system, the, 42
- Phthisis, 153
- Planning, defects in, 1
- Practical sanitation, 34
- Principles of slop-drainage, 75
- Putrescible fluids, 23
- Rates, cubic contents in relation to, 120
- Rating, 119
- Refuse, classification of, 84
- — dry, 89
- Roman Campagna, 171
- Rome, ancient, 171
- Rooms, living, 18
- Sanitation, practical, 34
- — of the isolated dwelling, the, 32, 41
- Sewage farms, 164
- Slop-drainage, principles of, 75
- Slop-water, 69
- Soil, the, in relation to disease and sanitation, 153
- Strand, the, 101
- Symbiosis, 136, 157
- Taxation, local, 147
- Town dwellings, 87
- Urinals, dry, 55
- Urine, dry method of treating, 49
- Ventilation of corridors, the, 9
- Warming, 16
- Water by meter, 118
- Wells, construction of, 61, 141
- Window, bedroom, 21
- — cellarage, 28
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