The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1884-03-07

Swill-tubs should not be near doors or
windows.
House caves should be guttered and
spouted.
Outside channel should be in good
order, and he regularly cleaned.
Garden plants should, of course, BEN
order, and be properly cultivated.
The ground floor Of house should not
be below the level of the land, street or
road outside.
The subsoil beneath house should be
naturally dry, OF it should be made dry
by land draining.
Cess-pools, cess pits, sink-holes or
drains should not be formed nor be re-
tanned within house Easements.
The subsoil within every basement
should have layer of concrete over 1t,
and there should be full ventilation.
The ground around dwelling houses
should be paved tagged, asphalted, cov-
cred with concrete or be grave.ed.
A bed of concrete over the site of cot,
tagcs will vastly nc dify an otherwise OBJ
ectionablc position; but, indeed, bed
of concrete should be used in all cases.
Schools, as a rule, are very effectively
ventilated Ordinarily tiat-ceilinged
rooms are totally unfit for public schools.
The space should be open up to roof
ridge, and this should be covered.
Do not build on heaps of rubbish,
filings in with cesspool refuse, chemical
waste, Or on swampy ground which can
not be drained. Thousands of houses
have been so placed, and are now being
so placed in the suburbs of our towns.
Pigsties should ever be kept at dis
lance; and, where pigs are kept, there
should be rigid cleanliness. Improperly
keeping pigs has caused much more
human sickness and destroyed more life
than all the battles the country has been
engaged in.
Nurseries and children's rooms should
be permanently ventilated. Dormitories
for children should have ample ventila-
ton; clothe the children warmly, cover
the beds warmly, prevent direct draughts,
and the cold air will not injure.
A site excavated on the side of hill
or steep bank is liable to be dangerous,
as external ventilation may be defective,
and the subsoil water from above may
soak toward and beneath such houses
Middens, ash-heaps and cess-pools, if al
the back, must also faint such base
ments.
Avoid fue ventilation of every sort
let the fresh air come in direct as posi-
bic. Night air is the only air you car
have at night, so do not fear it. Dread
foul, because tainted, air manufactured
within the rooms. Any outside fresh all
is better than lung and skin tainted in
side air.
Houses are unwholesome from accumu
lated dirt, carelessness and personal neg
lect, as when: Rooms are not suti
GENTLY cleansed; carpets are left dowr
too long and never swept; windows are
seldom opened; closets are dirty, neg
lected and without ventilation; dirty
beds are unmade and shrouded by dirt,
hangings; dirty wardrobes and dirt!
clothes closets; hooks, corners anc
shelves which are never busted.
Many houses, from the mansion TO tn,
cottage, are also unwholesome for SOM
Of the following reasons: Damp and un
ventilated basins; cesspools and fou
drains within the basement; rotten tim
bers in floors and skirtings, and tainted
wall papers; kitchen sinks in imprope
places, and unvcntilated; closets in i'm
proper places, and unventilated; room
without adequate means of ventilation
water cisterns and pumps in imprope
places, supplying contaminated water.
To ventilate stairs and passages, opel
the staircase or passage window, or both
by drawing down the top sash severa
inches in summer, one or more inches II
winter, and in some cases screw the sasi
fast, so that these windows must be opel
all the year round; if there is skyligh
above the staircase, let there be ventlla
ton here which cannot be closed. TIL
result will be improved health to the fam
ily. Pay no att ntion to any casual re
marks, GLOW cold your staircase is!
Let the ladies put on an extra shawl
But the remark will seldom be made.
The Methodists have grown from 10,
coo members in 1884 to 1898, $50 at tn
uraseut time. Their centennial celebra