Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner.

  • Turner, Ernest.
Date:
1884
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to househunters and householders / by Ernest Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The sprinkling of a little chloride of lime or carbolic acid can really do little more than make two smells instead of one. And the “ sanitary ’ smell being strong enough to mask the other, just affords a convenient cover for the putrefying mass below to putrefy more thoroughly, and poison its self-deluding proprietors more effectively. “ Reform it altogether.” Let your dustbin be ol some non-absorbent material, such as iron, and small enough to be carried bodily away and emptied directly into the cart. Then, when it comes back empty, wash it out with a disinfectant if you like. Above all, do not tolerate for five unnecessary minutes that commonest of abomina- tions, a wooden dustbin built up against the absor- bent brick wall of the house. And—if you really desire a healthy house—do not confine your attention to the dustbins. War “ to the broom ” with dust everywhere. Flock-papers are simply gigantic dust-preserves. So are curtains and portieres, and hangings of all descriptions ; and the heavier and rougher the material the more dust they will accumulate. The latter are too comfortable, and too pleasant to the eye to be altogether dispensed with, except by the real enthusiasts of sanitation. But every one may bear in mind their drawbacks in this respect, and make them as little mischievous as may be. Carpets again are grand reservoirs for dust;