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young couple to keep the old people at home, who are 

 thus made useful in taking care of the children, and at 

 the same time are themselves cared for by their own 

 family. The ground-floor bedroom is also especially 

 useful in the case of an invalid, who can be tended with 

 less labour, and with more constant watching and attention. 

 Each block of two cottages has an out-house, comprising 

 fin oven and bake-house in common ; they have also 

 separate privies and ash-pits, &c. 



This is in accordance with the recommendations on the 

 whole subject of the writer of a prize essay on " Labourers' 

 Cottages."* 



Semi-detached cottages are to be preferred. Each should 

 have a garden from a sixth to a quarter of an acre. 

 The privy should be away from the water supply ; and if 

 there be a cesspool, it should be at the extreme end of the 

 garden : if a pigsty, it should be away from the house. 

 Tiles or slates, not thatch, should be used for the roof. 

 And it may be mentioned, as affecting health, that the 

 privy should be without any sunken cesspit. Any one using 

 it goes up three steps (brick- work) to the seat ; and thus the 

 floor of the cesspit is on the level of the ground. It is 

 laid in cement, and continued outwards beyond the wall 

 under a flat archway behind, joining a, cement floor outside, 

 on which earth is laid, temporarily blocking up the arch- 

 way in question, and ultimately used to mix with the filth 

 and form a manure for the garden, which must be carried 

 and dug in every week or fortnight. 



There ought to be two doors to the lower rooms of the 

 cottage, front and back. The windows and all sashes and 



* Jan-old & Sons, 12, Paternoster Eow. 



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