107. THE healthiness or unhealthiness of a house

The handbook of household management ... · Tegetmeier, W. B. · 1894
Source
The handbook of household management and cookery
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Not a recipe
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Ingredients (4)
waste vegetables
Instructions (4)
  1. In country places, where the ground around a house is not paved with stone, care should be taken that no puddles of dirty water remain close to the house, as they not only render the air damp and unwholesome, but cause much dirt to be brought in on the feet.
  2. Slops of dirty water, tea-leaves, coffee-grounds, &c., should never be thrown out near the house, as they decay and are injurious.
  3. All decaying vegetable and animal matter near a house is injurious.
  4. Cabbage-leaves, potato and apple-parings, and other waste vegetables should never be thrown into the dust-bin, but should always be burnt; which can always be done if they are first dried by throwing them at the back of the fire or in the ash-pit.
Original Text
107. THE healthiness or unhealthiness of a house depends very greatly upon its degree of cleanliness; dirty, uncleaned houses are always more or less unhealthy. In country places, where the ground around a house is not paved with stone, care should be taken that no puddles of dirty water remain close to the house, as they not only render the air damp and unwholesome, but cause much dirt to be brought in on the feet. Slops of dirty water, tea-leaves, coffee-grounds, &c., should never be thrown out near the house, as they decay and are injurious. All decaying vegetable and animal matter near a house is injurious. Cabbage-leaves, potato and apple-parings, and other waste vegetables should never be thrown into the dust-bin, but should always be burnt; which can always be done if they are first dried by throwing them at the back of the fire or in the ash-pit.
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