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The Dwelling House

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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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