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Title: How to live; a manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine islands
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Knapp, Adeline
Subjects: Hygiene, Popular
Publisher: New York, Boston (etc.) Silver, Burdett and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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so as to keep out cold andwinds. We have no use for fires to fightoff frost and chill. But houses in coun-tries where the winters are cold and snowymust have thick walls; they must havecarpets on the floors and heavy curtains atthe windows. There must be fires in thehouses, to keep people warm. If the houseswere not warm, people would suffer fromcold and many would die. Nevertheless, while they do not need tobe built for warmth, our houses in the tropicsought to be as carefully built as are thehomes in winter lands. That they are notso built is one reason why so many littlechildren die here,—many more than inAmerica, for instance. First of all, since we are to build a house,we must have a good place for it. We willnot build on low land if we can help it. 46 HOW TO LIVE. Neither will we build near standing water.We see a great many houses upon land thatis almost always wet, but they are very un-healthful for the people who have to live inthem. If our house is to be a healthful place
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An Unhealthful Street.Without pavement or gutters. for us, we must build it on firm land that iswell drained. Some day the whole city ofManila, w^ithin the walls, will have to beraised several feet higher than it is at pres-ent, to get it far enough above the low, un- ALL ABOUND THE HOUSE. 47 healthful land it now stands on. The streetsmust be made wider, too, so that the suncan shine upon the house walls. The nar-row streets are nearly always damp andunhealthful. Manila will never be a healthyplace until these things are done. But outside of the walls, and in the coun-try, we can pick our plots and prepare ourbuilding sites. The fine, beautiful house andthe little nipa cottage can be equal in onerespect; that is, both can have clean, health-ful surroundings. The living-rooms of houses in this coun-try should never be close to the ground.The land on which a house stands should bewell drained and kept dry. This, however,is not all that should be done to preparea building spot. In tropi

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