OR, HOUSEHOLD SANITATION. BY MRS. H. M. PLUNKETT. Showing that, if women and plumbers do their whole sanitary duty, there will be comparatively little occasion for the services of the doctors. "Here is a really profound and thorough investigation into the causes of half the diseases that afflict humanity. If dwellings were built in the right places, properly constructed and furnished, and then carefully looked after, sickness would rarely occur in such houses. Mrs. Plunkett cites numerous facts from the experience of herself and others to prove all she says. She tells many touching stories to illustrate the fatal results of ignorance and neglect of the laws of health in American homes. The book is very interesting, aside from its instructive and useful character. It is full of pictures showing the contrasts of good and bad plumbing, complete and defective drainage, etc. The reading of practical books like this one will do much to educate our people in the art of making homes healthy and happy."-New York Journal of Commerce. "After a few pages on sanitation in general, Mrs. Plunkett describes the dangers which lurk in wet house-sites and inadequate foundations, and then proceeds with the arrangement of the house for securing sufficient warmth, ventilation, and sunshine. The next chapter deals with lighting, and contains many facts in relation to dangerous burning-oils that every housewife should thoroughly know. Various ways in which water may become unwholesome are told, with directions for tests and measures of protection. The requirements of a good system of plumbing are stated, examples of defective work are given, and some explanation of the nature of sewer-gas and disease-germs is added. As many eminent physicians have declared that cholera will certainly come to America in 1885, a memorandum of the New York State Board of Health relating to the prevention of the disease has been introduced, together with directions for home treatment, including recipes for medicines. The book, though aiming especially to interest women, is addressed to all readers who desire a popular and practical presentation of this important subject; quotations from the writings of able physicians and sanitarians have been freely used, and evidently care has been taken to make a useful and reliable book."-The Popular Science Monthly. "Mrs. H. M. Plunkett has written a book that will prove a blessing in thousands of households, if only its important lessons are heeded. She clearly shows why women should understand the details as well as the theory of sanitation, and furnishes all information to enable them to possess such an understanding."-Boston Home Journal. "The work is well written, and the diagrams showing the perfect and imperfect work are simple and easily understood; it is well worth perusal by every father, and more particularly by every mother of a family, showing, as it does, where most of the seeds of disease germinate."-Rochester Post and Express. For sale by all booksellers; or sent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price. New York: D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street. By O. W. WIGHT, M. D., of the Detroit Board of Health. 16mo, cloth, 75 cents. "The appearance of this hand-book is most timely. There is a vague apprehension that the cholera may visit the United States next year. Everybody wants to know what to do for the exclusion or limitation of the dread disease. Dr. O. W. Wight, to whom we owe these Maxims of Public Health,' speaks with the voice of authority. He has been for six years Health Officer of Detroit, and has made epidemics the subject of patient and earnest study. Here we have the fruits of all his experience and observation. His book ought to be placed in the hands of every person connected in any way with health boards in all parts of the country. It is invaluable for instant reference in an emergency. Wight proves his competency to speak on this subject by the emphasis he puts on cleanliness of houses and streets as the best safeguard against pestilence."— New York Journal of Commerce. Dr. "Dr. Wight is to be commended, not only for reiterating the dangers to which we are subject, both in city and country, from unsanitary surroundings, but because he has clothed his thoughts in virile, understandable English. He has the ordinary scientific view of filth as the breeder of certain contagious diseases -scarlet fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria and the like-but has a new idea concerning the removal of sewage before it putrefies. As he puts it in the preface, 'the only way to get rid of sewer-gas is not to make any.' It is a pleasure to read his thoughts; they can not be other than a great boon to the unprofessional man, for whom they are specially written."-Hartford Evening Post. "The intelligent householder who has no time, perhaps no inclination, for systematic studies, may read these maxims with a quick comprehension of their import, and find hints that will save himself and his loved ones unspeakable pain and sorrow. To say nothing of his success as a medical practitioner, Dr. Wight gives in this valuable book the result of six years of personal experience in sanitary administration. We heartily commend it to the careful reading of all who would be prepared to ward off any epidemic that should make its appearance in their midst, or who would have everything about their premises of the most healthful character."-Boston Home Journal. "Dr. Wight's heart is at his pen's point in every page of his book, and he is as exhaustive upon every phase of human life and suffering and exposure and economy, as he is on the school."-St. Paul Dispatch. "A little volume which condenses within less than two hundred pages a vast amount of sanitary science. The book is evidently the result of long and close attention to the subject, and, being designed for the general reader, it gives the results of investigation and experiment without burdening them with details of the processes by which they have been reached. It is a book which should be studied by all."-Chicago Daily Times. "This is a timely and most instructive as well as interesting series of paragraphs on sanitary subjects, which ought to be read in every household and board of health."-Newark Daily Advertiser. "He plunges into the subject of city drainage, handling the topic with such skill and precision as prove him a past master of hygienic science. 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