Excerpt from Sanitary Arrangements for Dwellings: Intended for the Use of Officers of Health Architects, Builders, and Householders In building, two errors are possible and ever recurring - the erection of a bad house on a good site, and of a good house on a bad site. If the latter mistake be made, the dwelling, however well con structed, may not be the safer of the two to reside in. 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.