How a tenant may keep his cottage healthy and comfortable / by J. Corbett.

  • Corbett, J. (Joseph)
Date:
[1879?]
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Credit: How a tenant may keep his cottage healthy and comfortable / by J. Corbett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    low A TENANT MAY KEEP HIS COTTAGE HEALTHY AND COMFORTABLE. BY J. CORBETT, Architect, &c., Sanitary Engineer to the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association, House Inspection Department. THAT'S the landlord's business ! If I pay my rent I've done my share, and he must keep it 'healthy and comfortable,' r I'll soon find another. Well, that is what most of us think bout itj but this idea is often carried too far, and a sensible ;nant will do many things for his own comfort in his cottage, just s if the place was entirely his own. Some of the things I have to recommend to you are such as a beral and judicious landlord might do for his tenants, but which ny tenant would be wise in doing for himself, by the rule, If you ant a thing doing, do it yourself; but most of my hints will be bout things that come entirely within the tenant's care, and specially within the housewife's care. I take it for granted that the landlord maintains the house roperly, with a sound roof and walls, reasonably close-fitting Dors and windows, smooth and dry floors, the usual kitchen-range id slopstone, reasonable yard accommodation, and a pure water ipply Most of the cottages within ten miles of Manchester are rovided with these essentials of health, and therefore we have ■eat advantages over the tenants of many other parts of the )untry, which would enable us, by proper care, to maintain good salth, even though we have more than our share of soot and dust I the air, and less than our share of sunshine. There_ are many cottages (I have had the pleasure of visiting :veral) in which the good-wife practices nearly all the health and