4. No obligation on the part of members to carry out any of the suggestions made by the engineers of the Association, who merely give skilled advice when such is desired.
5. The officers of the Association to have no interest in any outlay recommended.
6. The Association might be of great service to the poorer members of the community.
[299] Healthy Houses, by Professor Fleeming Jenkin, p. 54.
[300] It is perhaps worth mentioning as a curiosity of literature that the American publishers who produced this book in the States, without consulting the author, afterwards sent him a handsome cheque, of course unsolicited by him.
[301] It is true, handsome tenements for working people have been built, such as the picturesque group of houses erected with this object by a member of the Council of the Edinburgh Sanitary Association, at Bell’s Mills, so well seen from the Dean Bridge, where every appliance that science can suggest has been made use of. But for the ordinary houses of the poor the advice of the Association’s engineers has been but rarely taken advantage of.