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I.- DIRECTIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION
OP HEALTH.
Cleanliness.- Nothing contributes more to health than
cleanliness, and nothing invited disease so much as dirt.
Dwelling rooms should be white-washed at least once a year,
and the floors of rooms and stairs scrubbed once a week.
Children should be washed at home, from head to foot, once
or twice a week; and grown up persons, both male and female,
should frequently use a bath. The linen should be changed
once a fortnight, and be;stcasds taken down and cleaned once a
year at least. Dirty slops should never be allowed to remain
in sitting or bed rooms, Every convenience for washing clothes
and bathing will be found at the Baths and Washouses, 16,
Marshall Street
Fresh Air.- In every house, sitting room, bed room, work-
shop, school, or public building, two things should be attended
to: First, the getting rid of the bad air which comes from the
lungs, and the letting is of the fresh air from without. Fires
ventilate rooms in cold weather, but all rooms without fires
should be ventilated by letting down the top much of the
window, by ventilating panes in the windows, or valves is the
chimaies, Care should be taken not to over-crowd sitting and
bet rooms; and persons should avoid occupying over-crowded