Housing and the Public Health (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Housing and the Public Health My official life has brought me into intimate contact with the bad conditions under which the humbler classes in our towns have to exist and the remedies which may be applied to these conditions. The experience thus gained enables me to assert with confidence that all these people (except perhaps a negligible minority) will respond to improved conditions, provided that the change is adequate. We may in this sense "trust the people." No single condition in the lives of the masses has such a damaging effect on health, or does harm in so many other ways, as bad housing. It is for this reason that I feel strongly the need of raising the standard of "housing, " so that every human life may enjoy the advantages of a healthy house in healthy surroundings. My minimal standard may be considered high, but I do not think that any substantial reduction could be made without risking the return of some of the unwholesome conditions we wish to remedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.