Excerpt from The Sanitary Condition of City and Country: Dwelling Houses Fortunately, the crime of ignorance is declining. The technology of the plumb er's art and the fundamental principles of sanitary engineering are more or less familiar to every newly fledged architect, and the physician has discovered that etiology and prophylaxis, too long subserv ient to therapeutics - are at least equal to it in importance. The householder him self, if he be of the more intelligent class, knows that obedience to hygienic laws is the price of safety, and he is willing usu ally to ask and to take advice from the priests and Levites of sanitation. 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.