HEALTHY HOMES. 
By E. Prada, Esq., M.R.C.S. 
j ,, nvio-mallv drawn up for these lectures, 
P r T a “?the Sn chosen to lecture on “Healthy 
Pr- deWoR was the person t ure for B thafc I stand 
)mes, and it 18 ^f^^ar more pleased would I be to be 
ore you here to might- i cxp osition of this subject by 
ting listenmg with you ^ f P, of knowledge and ripe 
8 old servant of the^ y ctures have been delivered by 
oenence. subie cts which they treated. I lay no 
perts on the differe ^ J t in sanitation, and my only 
mi whatevei toner « is t lie interest which, as a 
alificatipn for ' bei £ * me dical man, I take in all matters 
izen of For E health of the population. It is true that 
,ieh concern tl health of the people has been denied 
terly any concern for tile h™ ^ have accused 
3 medical profession c i 0 uds of dust which sometimes 
of seeing with delight the j . C ‘° f U the profits which may result 
« from our streets . 0n .“?®°^ noraIlC e that speaks in that way. 
erefrom. But it is on y » present day is to discover 
le tendency of the medicin P science during the last 
earns of preventing disease. ^ disease, and lengthened 
ity years has decreased m ° lt aiiy . and development to medical 
le span of life, and it owes its ■ ong gcience but the progress 
ien. Sanitary science is not a very { ^ ( whio h is well exem- 
lat has been made hasbcen P ’ red with the London of 
lifted in the London of to-day a gtreetg were unpaved or 
he last century, in those J There were no sidewalks, 
aved only with rough cobble and were unprovided 
'he houses projected over th during a shower the rain fel 
rith rain water gutters so that dunn^ The streets were 
rom the roof to the nm 0 £ s i 0 ps and orduie 
ilthy from constant contribut m scavenging being 
i-nimals. and human beings , ^ oun( j drains, and the s 
mknown. There were no undergroun The rooms 
he town was soaked with the human habitations, 
if the poor were more hke which were seldom changed, 
anventilated, and strewn wi ,i ose ly packed in these mist ■ 
md the wretched inhabitants closely P guffer from infections of 
hovels must have been ' e ‘ y ^ d ered at that black c ? ea 
all kinds.” It is not to be /“Solera found a congenial atmos 
sweating siclfness, typhus an 
