this, will assuredly be happier as they become healthier, and duly appreciating their condition, be desirous of extending it to others, by urging on the legislature the necessity for adopting sanatory regulations. Let all those things which tend to injure health be forbidden by law, such as cesspools, and all other accumulations of filth and of decaying animal and vegetable matters; let a full and complete drainage be established everywhere; let inoculation with smallpox be forbidden; let two of the greatest requisites to health, good water and pure air, be most abundantly supplied, to effect these ends: let the supply of water everywhere be unlimited and continuous; let public conduits or fountains be built in many places; let narrow streets, blind courts, and crowded houses, be forbidden, and let open spaces be devoted for the exercise and recreation of the people in many parts of every town; let quackery and the sale of its nostrums be either entirely suppressed by law, or so regulated, that it shall openly avow what it is, and not mislead the ignorant or the unwary by pretending to be that which it is not; and lastly, let the purity of all articles publicly sold as food or as medicines, be assured by the appointment of inspectors, armed with proper authority. If a complete system of public Hygiene were esta |