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??? various ways all measures taken for the promotion
of their comfort and health; and that not unfre???uently,
within a week or two of the time at which
???;heir houses have been cleansed, and drains, closets'
???&c., have been put in order, their houses are as
???ilthy and their sanitary appliances as defective as
???;hey were before.
2nd. In recent discussions, as in former ones,
landlords of small property have been held up to
general reprobation; and many persons have been
and are inclined to attribute all the sanitary defects
which prevail in such property to their neglect and
rapacity. No doubt the landlords of small property,
just like the landlords of better property, like tradespeople
and professional men, and even like members
of the legislature, present great varieties of character.
Some are selfish and look only after their own interest,
some are careless and take no trouble about anything;
but there are many who strive to do their
duty conscientiously, and many who are excellent.
I know at the present time one landlord, formerly a
vestryman, who has a large number of houses in one
of the poorest districts of the parish—property that
(owing largely to the quality of the tenants) would,
I dare say, be condemned by drawing-room sanitarians,
but which I confess to regard as very suit-
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