Dangers to health : a pictorial guide to domestic sanitary defects / by T. Pridgin Teale.

  • Thomas Pridgin Teale
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dangers to health : a pictorial guide to domestic sanitary defects / by T. Pridgin Teale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hesitate to allow sewer gas to poison the inmates of his house, even in the face of the strongest remonstrances of his medical adviser. 15. —A landlord may reasonably look for interest on money which he spends for the benefit of his tenant; but he is committing little short of manslaughter if, by refusing to rectify sanitary defects in his property, he saves his own pocket at the expenses of the health and lives of his tenants. 16. —If you be a landlord, don't intimidate your tenants or threaten to give them notice to quit if they complain of defective drainage or sewer gas in the house. NOTE.—Copies of these Maxims may be obtained of the National Health Society, Berners Street, London. Price, 2s. per 100.