and pastimes.

The houses of the helpless and aged are, like the asylums, the same as
the houses of the rest of the town. No large building of pretentious
style uprears itself for the poor; no men badged and badgered as
paupers walk the place. Those poor who are really, from physical
causes, unable to work, are maintained in a manner showing that
they possess yet the dignity of human kind; and that, being worth
preservation, they are therefore worthy of respectful tenderness. The
rest, those who can work, are employed in useful labours, which pay
for their board. If they cannot find work, and are deserving, they may
lodge in the house and earn their subsistence; or they may live from
the house and receive pay for work done. If they will not work, they,
as vagrants, find a home in prison, where they are compelled to share
the common lot of mankind.

Our model city is of course well furnished with baths, swimming
baths, Turkish baths, playgrounds, gymnasia, libraries, board schools,
fine-art schools, lecture halls, and places of instructive amusement.
In every board-school drill forms part of the programme. I need not
dwell on these subjects, but must pass to the sanitary officers and
offices.

There is in the city one principal sanitary officer, a duly qualified
medical man elected by the Municipal Council, whose sole duty it is to
watch over the sanitary welfare of the place. Under him, as sanitary
officers, are all the medical men who form the poor law medical staff.
To him these make their reports on vaccination and every matter
of health pertaining to their respective districts; to him every
registrar of births and deaths forwards copies of his registration