Now, if it be true that Providence helps those who help themselves, surely a debt of gratitude is due to him who has placed (as has been attempted to be shown in this brief narrative) the means of self-help and the attainment of a palpable benefit within the reach of all through the working of a simple plan, whose motto well may be, ‘Healthy Houses’; and device a strangled snake.
A. F.
FOOTNOTES
[113] Reminiscences of My Later Life, by Mary Howitt, Good Words, May 1886.
[288] See paper read at the Congress of the Social Science Association, Edinburgh, October 8, 1880.
[290] It was ultimately agreed not to appoint an officer of this kind till occasion should arise for his services; none has been appointed.
[295] Briefly stated, the points submitted in this prospectus were these:
1. That the proposed Association was a Society for the benefit of its members and the community that cannot be used for any purposes of profit.
2. The privileges of members include the annual inspection of their premises, as well as a preliminary report on their condition with an estimate of the cost of any alterations recommended.
3. The skilled inspection from time to time of drains and all sanitary arrangements.