. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. his ?Well, suppose you think of engaging hoard at a certain hotel or a certain boarding-house, or of renting acertain cottage at .Asburv Park. The terms and the situation and equipment of ilie house are satis-factory; perhaps it commands a fine view and is a handsome, commodious structure. But how about itssanitary condition ? How about such prosaic but highly important details as the character of the drainage,the location of closets, the number and efficiency of the traps, the system of piping, In anyother town you would have to dispense with information on
. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. his ?Well, suppose you think of engaging hoard at a certain hotel or a certain boarding-house, or of renting acertain cottage at .Asburv Park. The terms and the situation and equipment of ilie house are satis-factory; perhaps it commands a fine view and is a handsome, commodious structure. But how about itssanitary condition ? How about such prosaic but highly important details as the character of the drainage,the location of closets, the number and efficiency of the traps, the system of piping, In anyother town you would have to dispense with information on these points or accept what was told you bylandlord, owner, and perhaps by neighbors. In .Asbury Park you call upon or write to the Board ofHealth; and are cheerfully and gladly given detailed and absolutely accurate information. There is not the least suspicion of what is popularly and graphically termed funny business, in thismatter. The largest hotel and the smallest cottage are served precisely the same ; and whether you. U. S. STATION. 8 ASBiKV PARK AXD ITS POfXTS Of IXTEREST. engage board at a clay or at a week )ou have only yourself to thank if the hygienic serviceprove unsatisfactory. But there is practically no clanger of that, for the same code that provides forreliable information on hygienic matters, provides for such strict regulation of plumbing and drainagework, and for so frequent and rigid a system of house to house inspection, that there is really no oppor-tiinisv for the practice of scamp-work on the part of the plumbers, or for tiie exercise of the penny wiseand pound foolish policy which some owners would otherwise follow. Every new plumbing system,
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