Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-09-18
From the Amcricaa Medical AMI Surgical Journal
a Home.

The situation of a house is of great import
ancc 1t must be healthy no other is fit for
home. 1t must be where the air circulates free
ly 1t must be where the winds from tho four
points can meet. 1t must be where the sun,
heat, and light, in their abundance can freely
come. 1t must be where the washing rain can
perform its purifying Office. 1t must be where
the air is salubrions, rich in oxygen electricity,
motion. and sweetness. 1t must be on slight
elevation, on y dry, warm, light soil.
The construction of the house must I've
art of the architect. The ground floor should
be slightly elevated above the giounA. The
rooms should all be high A verandah, par
TALLY, or wholly around the cottage, would add
to its comfort.
=! Each room saoall have due ten inches by
/ four in one Of its walls commencing at the
Aoor and terminating at the chimney or roof
and one of the same size in one of its walls,
communicating with the atmosphere and te,mi-
mating at the junction Of the wall and ceiling,
for constant Ventilation.
The dtria5ns should be for labor, eating,
sitting. and sleeping. The social, sleeping, cat
ing, Hnd cooking apartments may be separate. =
Il would add TO health 10 have them scparato.--
The cooking and washing rooms should not be
blended with the dining and social departments
There should be a roo set apart for this labor,
and made convenient.
b. .ss.y 4.s iss aleald peyel
touch the dwelling They should be at little
distance The yard around the house should bt
crnamented with them. Their elimination Of
oxygen, consumption Of carbonic acid, fragrance
shade, beauty, and attraction to birds, greatly
add to the health Of home.
Sheds corn cfibs, carragc-houses, granaries
out, houses, pens, kennels, barns, yards for AM
mails, coops, sites etc, should be removed many
Yards. yes. rods from the house. They constant
" give off offensive and mischicvous gases, and
arc often dangerous to health, and always to
good taste and morality Purity is primary
quality in Il good person
Horses, cattle sheep, hogs, dogs. cats, geese
ducks, hens, turkeys--al animals should be
prevented from approaching the house, They
are ever destructive to shrubbery, flowers vines
fruit-trces, grass, paths, and by their habits
contaminate the air and ground, and shonlc
asyer lie allowed to cume within the house
grounds.
Build no cellar beneath the house. That il
not the place for the reception of food. Nor l.
it the place for decomposing animal and vegeta
Bile matter. Nor is it the place for every specie
of old barrels, jugs, bottles, tubs, buckets, etc
The cellarmust not be under the bed, the table
the sick-room the nursery and the Kitchen
The cellar must be some rods from the house
In it, when fall comes, the vegetables, fruits
the meats, etc., are put. They remain ther
until the next summer, or at east spring.
has no appropriate ventilation; its contents ar
constantly terminating or dying and decayne
Changes are constantly occurring there, whic
are mischieyous to health. Besides, it is Otter
the receptacle of water, which becomes stag
nant, facilitating the decomposition of vegeta
bles, and giving off, by evaporation, cool va
por which penotrates the apartments above, rob
bing the rooms Of their heat, each human bein
. of its warmth, thus lavoring colds, coughs
consumptons, inAammations, levers fuxcs, etc
The cellar should be separate building a
: much as The barn, and constructed for the spC
cifc purpose of preserving food.
4 The offal of the table, the kitchen, the ehau
ber, etc all tho waste of the whole hous'
+ must not be thrown upon the soil near by, bv
=. carried far off, Sewers destitute of water col
n stan'ly passing through them, or those that al
nearly level, are sources of pestilential eman
y tions--uiasmatic effluvia.
d Pools of water, standing water, muddy pl
: ces, wet ground, bogs, etc., that are near IL
: house should be filed up with sand or dry sol
" The ground around the dwelling must be dr.
light, and warm.
5. The house should not be shop for all kim
l. of business. Such shops should be with Il
" out-buildings Instruments OF industry, TOO
f of art, machinery, timbers, carriages, WOO
le clips, carts, wagons, harnesses, Sc, mu
al have their appropriate places
es The house must be pure as the tops OF Il
s. forest trees. The air, the heat, and the light
it The sun. the winds, must be allowed freely
r. visit every nom daily. Anything that has
10 tendenev TO prevent evaporation, to shut ont tt
t. sun, the light and heat, the air. is deadly
" life
a. Letnoihiug accumulate about or in the hou
ID ,ba, fayors disease, disorder, ideness or car
/. essness. Old clothes, old boots and shoes,