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ness, between health and the insanitary, is not 

 a question so much of money as of care and 

 thought and simple common sense. There 

 must, of course, be a minimum for decency, 

 but it is better to have a series of different 

 sized cottages as uniform as coins in their 

 essential features than to allow each fresh 

 pair or short terrace to be the sport of every 

 new architect's whim. 



Parliament may have to re-define the terms 

 of air-space ; and medical men will have to 

 help us to design that awkward requirement, 

 the invalid's chamber. We all know from 

 experience that the mother has not yet 

 learnt in many cases to part from her invalid 

 for the invalid's sake as well as for that 

 of the brothers and sisters. A flourishing 

 countryside will soon solve this problem : 

 a squalid hamlet never could have done so 

 from the nature of the case. The old house- 

 place will, I hope, be kept by the experts as 

 long as it is made impossible to deal with 

 milk and other products in it. The separate 

 rooms arc more desirable upstairs. 



Spolttsu'ooae &■ Co. Ltd., Primers, Colchester, London and Eton. 



