{117c} There are several thousand gratings to sewers and drains which are utterly useless on account of their position, and positively injurious from their emanations.--Mr. Guthrie"s evidence.--Ibid., vol. ii., p. 255.
{118} Mr. Wood states that the masters and mistresses were generally ignorant of the depressing and unhealthy effects of the atmosphere which surrounded them, and he mentions the case of the mistress of a dame-school who replied, when he pointed out this to her, "that the children thrived best in dirt!"--Health of Towns Report, vol. i., pp. 146, 147.
{126} See "The Fair Maid of Perth."
{161} See "Health of Towns Report," 1844, vol. i., p. 44.
{183} Bacon, de Augmentis Scientiarum.