APPENDIX II. clxix 



In 1878 was published Healthy Houses (Edin., David Douglas), 

 being the substance of the two lectures already mentioned as having 

 been delivered in Edinburgh with the intention of laying open the 

 idea of the scheme then in contemplation, with a third addressed to 

 the Medico-Chirurgical Society. This book has been long out of 

 print, and, such has been the demand for it that the American edi- 

 tion 1 is understood to be also out of print, and unobtainable. 



In 1880 was printed (London, Spottiswoode and Co.) a pamphlet 

 entitled What is the Best Mode of Amending the Present Laws with 

 Reference to Existing Buildings, and also of Improving their Sanitary 

 Condition with due Regard to Economical Considerations 1 the sub- 

 stance of a paper read by Professor Jenkin at the Congress of the 

 Social Science Association at Edinburgh in October of that year. 



The first item of Health Lectures for the People (Edin. 1881) 

 consists of a discourse on the * Care of the Body ' delivered by Pro- 

 fessor Jenkin in the Watt Institution at Edinburgh, in which the 

 theories of house sanitation are dwelt, on. 



House Inspection, reprinted from the Sanitary Record, was issued 

 in pamphlet form in 1882. And another small tract, Houses of the . 

 Poor ; their Sanitary Arrangement, in 1885. 



In this connection it may be said that while the idea formulated 

 by Jenkin has been carried out with a measure of success that could 

 hardly have been foreseen, in one point only, it may be noted, has 

 expectation been somewhat disappointed as regards the good that 

 these Associations should have effected and the fact was constantly 

 deplored by the founder namely, the comparative failure as a means 

 of improving the condition of the dwellings of the poorer classes. It 

 was ' hoped that charity and public spirit would have used the Asso- 

 ciation to obtain reports on poor tenements, and to remedy the most 

 glaring evils.' l 



The good that these associations have effected is not to be esti- 

 mated by the numbers of their membership. They have educated the 

 public on certain points. The fact that they exist has become gene- 

 rally known, and, by consequence, persons of all classes are induced to 

 satisfy themselves of the reasons for the existence of such institutions, 

 and thus they learn of the evils that have called them into being. 

 Builders, burgh engineers, and private individuals in any way 



1 It is perhaps worth mentioning as a curiosity of literature that the 

 American publishers who produced this book in the States, without consulting 

 the author, afterwards sent him a handsome cheque, of course unsolicited by 

 him. 



