Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . aveling through a vale of surpassing grandeur, be-cause of the mountain barriers on either side, finds himself confronted by a PROGRESS OF SANITARY SCIENCE 281 park whose beauty is enhanced by its variety as well as its extent, bounded,it is true, by the same mountains, but merely a hazy definiti
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . aveling through a vale of surpassing grandeur, be-cause of the mountain barriers on either side, finds himself confronted by a PROGRESS OF SANITARY SCIENCE 281 park whose beauty is enhanced by its variety as well as its extent, bounded,it is true, by the same mountains, but merely a hazy definition of the distanthorizon. In the construction of dwellings, for example, the small, low ceiled rooms,whose earthen or stone floors were covered with rushes seldom removed, theabsorbers of whatever might fall upon the floor; the unpaved, unswept, andunsewered street; the domestic water supply but a well into which filters thewater from the adjoining cesspool, — these and many similar destroyers ofhealth and comfort can no longer be found among nations classed as enlight-ened in our school geographies. Even the improvements of half a centuryago — the tenements improvised out of the deserted mansions of the well-to-do, with the additions built on the rear of the lot to increase the densitv of. A QUARANTINE STATION. the population and the rent of the owner (as well as the death-rate), are dis-appearing, and in their places we find dwellings capable of furnishing air andlight to all of the residents. Then, in the matter of streets, how much more attention is now given tosmall parks ! When about the middle of the century interest in public parkswas revived, the efforts of the various cities were directed to the securing oflarge tracts of ground and beautifying them in every way. They were opento every one, it is true, but too often too far removed to be of use to the sub-merging tenth. Now, while not adorning these with one garland less, theeffort is making to break up the conges
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