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 BELztTING TO INDIA 488 snding heirlooms. Its military defences however, became considerable, doubtless.as he Creseen waned, as is cared by the large remaining rampart base, the presnts to its Zemindsrs, which are still family fairly indi- blmok basalt wall running straight along the south bank of the river and pushing this northward. After this time 'would necessarily arise new Ohats, notably surviving, with their inconspicuous Temples, at the angle where the River turns ... Since the Mohammedan time the basalt ha8 been largely used as a quarry of building and thus ths full tracing of its course cannot north. . Rampart materials, here be gone There are have not into". many more pages of historical matter, but we space for further quotations. In the chapters immediately following, the most notable is that devoid to Public Health. The author has' much to criticise, not only in the existing iusanitary slums of Indian cities, but also in the well-meant attempts to apply the European sanitary systems o! the nineteenth century to city improvements in Ind/s. He points out how the advance of bacteriological knowledge and disesveries of disease-bearers like the mos- quitoos and ths flea involve s totally new sanitary practice. This we might call "naturalistic" (though he does not use the term). The system involves the study of the plant and animal life with s view to fitting the human being iuo st lifs cycle (whersby all the waste products of human life which are so deleterious are disposed of by keeping domestic animals and by the natural action of the sun and soil bacteria. Thus plague amongst mill-workers he traces to grain and crumbs of food scattered by the workers in the mill or its ecrupound and in their cAwls. The remedy is to have the floor of every after the meal time and for the if necessary, "(1) to set up a mill carefully swept up workers to be compelled, pigeon-cote, so as to hays any remaining crumbs eaten up forthwith; and (2) to keep ots, which would' at night soon clear 'out any linger- ing rats altogether." The matter is *further developed in Chapter Xll where a simple avoiding the enormous capital system is worked out. Time most important parts of plan of sanitary gardens for outlay needed by a sewer the remainh8 chapters ae theos which deal more directly with the Principles of Town 55