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connected with the construction of dwellings in town or country have 

 been put upon their mettle, and constrained to keep themselves 

 abreast with the wholesome truths which the engineering staff of all 

 these Sanitary Associations are the means of disseminating. 



In this way, doubtless, some good may indirectly have been done 

 to poorer tenements, though not exactly in the manner contemplated 

 by the founder. 1 



Now, if it be true that Providence helps those who help themselves, 

 surely a debt of gratitude is due to him who has placed (as has been 

 attempted to be shown in this brief narrative) the means of self-help 

 and the attainment of a palpable benefit within the reach of all 

 through the working of a simple plan, whose motto well may be, 

 * Healthy Houses ' ; and device a strangled snake. 



A. F. 



1 It is true, handsome tenements for working people have been built, such 

 as the picturesque group of houses erected with this object by a member of 

 the Council of the Edinburgh Sanitary Association, at Bell's Mills, so well seen 

 from the Dean Bridge, where every appliance that science can suggest has been 

 made use of. But for the ordinary houses of the poor the advice of the Associa- 

 tion's engineers has been but rarely taken advantage of. 



