Health and Temperance

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 10.

Health and Temperance.

THE UNSANITARY CONDITION OF COUNTRY HOMES.

DR. LUCY M. HALL, who recently lectured before the Academy of Anthropology, in Cooper Union, New York, on "Sanitation in the Country," told some plain and wholesome truths on the subject. She has, it appears, given this matter close attention, has examined over one hundred and fifty country houses, both East and West, and gave the audience her opinion—that the average farm-house is not the healthful place that it is supposed to be by the people who pour out of the crowded cities in the summer-time. On the contrary, she has found that disease and death lurked within many a vine-clad and moss-covered cottage, because simple hygienic laws were violated. Some of the evils she referred to were improper drainage, uncemented cellars, failure to ventilate sleeping apartments, exclusion of light, too much shade about the house, and the improper disposal of kitchen refuse.—Scientific American.