. The sanitation of a country house. ing conditions. Evenif it does become necessary to retainsome of the waste on the premisesfor a time, this can be kept in sucha condition as not to become a nuisancenor offensive; but to have such wastescattered everywhere, and perhaps 74 Sanitation of a Country House, have in addition an open pail or twocontaining water and breeding thou-sands of mosquitoes, as I have shownin the photograph (Fig. ii), is surelyinadmissible. The outbuildings require a word,especially the stable, which, on accountof being a great fiy-breeding place,should be as far as possib
. The sanitation of a country house. ing conditions. Evenif it does become necessary to retainsome of the waste on the premisesfor a time, this can be kept in sucha condition as not to become a nuisancenor offensive; but to have such wastescattered everywhere, and perhaps 74 Sanitation of a Country House, have in addition an open pail or twocontaining water and breeding thou-sands of mosquitoes, as I have shownin the photograph (Fig. ii), is surelyinadmissible. The outbuildings require a word,especially the stable, which, on accountof being a great fiy-breeding place,should be as far as possible from thehouse. That flies do sometimes transmitdisease—notably typhoid fever—thereis no longer a doubt, and their elimina-tion, or rather diminution, is eminentlydesirable. Absence of the stable wouldbe one of the most effective ways, butstables are necessary, and the best wecan do is to diminish as much aspossible their fly-producing are practically two ways of doingthis. The first consists in using a closet. How THE Back Yard Ought to Look.
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