Luxury the foe to Sanitation.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 859, 17 August 1888, Page 4

Luxury the foe to Sanitation.

Twcntjy-fivo years ago in our country tho age b| : ;6xcesßive luxury commenced;* When man built a new house, or fitted up ?an old thing, the thing alone considered was bodily comfort. Health, arts, and the beautiful were sacrificed. He could not be happy without his, bath and commode next to his bed-chamber, and the plumbers were consulted instead of the physicians. People were not awakened from their doze of physical comfort until the ghost of fever and malaria came stalking into their rooms, carrying off the inmates of these beautiful houses with all their modern conveniences, or paralyzing them with disease. Now the public mind is alive upon this subject, but too late for many places, and since ; the large cities, and even tho mountains and our highly decorated and beautiful places of seaside resort have become pol. ’lnted with disease, is it not important that the sick, and even the well, should have some place to go to free themselves from it; that instead of flying from death in one place to the arms of disease in another there might be a place or places founded aud built upon true sanitary principles. I doubt very much whether our modern civilisation in regard to health ia equal to that of the ancients. They paid attention to personal cleanliness, of which the moderns have little conception. The remains of their splendid baths, epon which millions were spent, are superb monuments of this fact. Their moral philosophy was founded upon the first necessity of health. Poisoned blood was believed to Be tho oause of insanity, A healthy mind in a healthy body

was with them on axiom.—Philadelphia Ledger