The sanitary duties of private individuals : especially separated and distinguished from the sanitary duties of government ... and to be applied by every one to himself in his own business or position in life.

Date:
1864
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Credit: The sanitary duties of private individuals : especially separated and distinguished from the sanitary duties of government ... and to be applied by every one to himself in his own business or position in life. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    an airy part of the town, though he paid higher rent than if he had lived in a worse situation, and had to walk a long way to and from his work •besides. What then! said he, if I am tired at night I sleep the sounder; and I see my wife and children come to breakfast with healthy faces. As to the rent, we will save in other things. If' we were to spend sixpence a day on beer, that would be more than nine pounds a year. We will do without. This pleasant little home, and a thankful heart to the Giver of every blessing, is worth all the beer twice over. We have good water here ; tea is getting cheaper, and my wife makes capital coifee. What more do we want? He kept his resolution; and as he was blessed with a good wife, he had a healthy, happy home. It was small and frugal, for his salary was but small, but it was not the less happy for that. Susan had lived in this family for five years. There's missis gone in to the children, thinks she to herself, as she goes to the parlor door. Half-past six by that. And as she opens the window and sweeps and dusts the neat little room, merry voices are heard above; splash goes one child after anothe]- into the cold water, and little feet are running over the floors. Then they come trooping down with shining morning faces and clean pinafores, Willie and Johnny, and Lucy, the eldest, who a