The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-02-01

ing stones OF the houses, or fOundatlonS II cellars
are made.
No dwelling house should be built which has not
either free air space of three feet beneath Its lower
floor, or we'll lighted cellar 1t is difficult to
measure or prescribe window space for cellars; but
would say let windows enough be provided to make
it possible to read ordinary print in any part of the
cellar, especially if stairway leads from it into
the interior of the house. 1t is hoped that care
fully prepared plan for sewerage may be considered
and adopted contemporaneously with the letting on
of water, otherwise copious supply of water may
prove to be detriment to the health of the place
1t is hoped that there may be no large hotel provided
on the plan of single consolidated building but
that small hotels be encouraged on the plan of scat
tering cottage lodging houses around central con-
versaton house and restaurant in which the office
for administration should be placed.
If city gate should be provided, directory
might easily be kept there, thus giving information
in regard to price of board and lodging in such
private families as might be willing to entertain
strangers, and list of the hotels, etc.
large hotel, such as we see at so many of the
watering places, and in our towns, contains so great
population that good sanitary conditions are i'm
possible. There is not salubrious large hotel in
existence, and it is safe to say there will not be one
the population rate alone making that impossible.
1t is worth while to try the plan of cooperative
stable in the town, in order obviate the necessity
of providing small stable accommodations near the
dwellings. Such stables might be provided with
every comfort and convenience for the horses and
+ha;ro nd ho ,
Preserve carefully all the ravines which cut the
town plot adapting the roads to the ground, and
crossing the ravines bridges where necessary The
ravnes are the natural surface drains or cuverts;
to obstruct them by feelings other distractions is
to impair the freedom of the currents of water on
and in the soil, and to lay the foundation for defec-
tive drainage in the future, and to make expensive
and unsatisfactory ultimately necessary 1t is
more than probable that the town will have popu
ation of four or five thousand in twenty-five years
from this time, and such sanitary provision as the
above suggests cannot safely be disregarded
The Board will be in possession of many thousands
of acres of land beautifully situated on plateau so
elevated, SO drained by streams and tributary ra-
vines, and with soil so porous that it will be easy
by exercising ordinary prudence, and applying few
sanitary principles, to build up community which
will have the highest possible health rate For twenty
years, l have heard from every variety of credible
source, testimony proving the natural salubrty of
the plateau; nothing that l have seen or heard
during my brief soourn there tends to cast the
slightest doubt upon the favorable testimony al
luded to above, but on the contrary, to deepen my
conviction of its truthfulne,s.
Your Board has before it the onerous, and at the
same time the most grateful task, of keeping up
the good health of the country as the population
comes in That is to be done by ensuring temper
ance among the people, and by not pouting the
soil with animal and vegetable natter by keeping
the town filth on the surface Of the ground, or so
safely stored and distributed as to be easily turned
into grazing crop; by making the houses dry and
the space beneath their lowest floors we'll ventilated
and by forbiddng loose jonted cesspools and prvy
sinks
Do not turn any sewage or other kind of filth into
the streams The habit of polutng streams should
be fought against The present generation may pol
lutte the. streams with IMMUNITY, PERHAPS, but
future generations will suffer
With best wishes for the success of Rugby, and
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