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placed so that the village they serve may be drenched

with evil smells in certain winds and at certain states of weather and yet worse penalties may be inflicted on the villagers from private nuisances as well as the bad science of public authorities. The things are not bad in themselves : sewage farms represent presumably the best form of drainage. They certainly prove a paradise for birds. If you want to find rare birds go to a sewage farm. But this is incidental. The architectural genius in the C.P.R.E. is very strong ; and a good deal of the impetus of the movement has come from the architects ; but the ornamental perhaps has received more emphasis than the useful. Sanitation is as proper a theme as the bungalow.

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