A handbook of house sanitation : for the use of all persons seeking a healthy home ; a reprint of those portions of Mr. Bailey-Denton's lectures on sanitary engineering given before the school of military engineering, Chatham, which related to the "dwelling."

  • John Bailey Denton
Date:
1882
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Credit: A handbook of house sanitation : for the use of all persons seeking a healthy home ; a reprint of those portions of Mr. Bailey-Denton's lectures on sanitary engineering given before the school of military engineering, Chatham, which related to the "dwelling.". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    f ^'^.* ^WEST-Rir?(NC PREFACE. This Treatise on House Sanitation is published for the follow- ing reasons:— In 1876 a series of Lectures, embracing the treatment of the Dwelling, was delivered by Mr. Bailey-Denton before the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, and published under the title of Sanitary Engineering; and that work having met with a ready sale its publication is now exhausted. Since the delivery of those Lectures a more general interest in Sanitation than then existed has grown up, and the desire to occupy houses of a healthful character being strongly manifested, has called forth many advisers and a multitude of devices to meet that desire. Under these circumstances the Editor, with Mr. Bailey-Denton's consent, has determined to issue, in a much cheaper form than the Lectures referred to, a Revised Edition of such portions as treated of The Dwelling, and its Sanitary requirements. There has long been felt the want of a Hand Book which— 0 freed as much as possible from trade technicalities—should be so comprehensive in its character as to enable the house-owner and the house-holder, as well as the architect and' builder, to under- stand and appreciate the arrangements and appliances which will best secure that healthy condition which is daily becoming more