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Show Must Have Oeen Sanitary. Doth thu medical oltlcor and tho surveyor of tho Tarvln (Chcstor) rural district council have condemned a cottage cot-tage nt Cnldccott Greet!, near Turn-dnn, Turn-dnn, Knrlnnd, for demolition as Insanitary. In-sanitary. Hut thn tenant, an old man, appealed before the council and told a remarkable htory "In stay of execution." execu-tion." Ho sln'cd that ho wns 73 years old, and lived lit tho cottngo with his wlfo and threo children. Kor CO years there had not boon n cr-.so of Illness in his family. Ills fnthe.- and mother llv ! the cottage hoforo him; his father died at tho age of 30 nnd tho mother at S3. He did not think Hint there could bo much wrong with tho cottage in the faco of theso facts In leply to tho clerk the old fellow said that porosnally ho had never had a doctor, and tho only tlmo a medical man had boon in his cottago was when hla little sou had scalded his leg. Under the exceptional (jlrciimstunccs tho council decided to adjourn the matter for further tnqulrb to bo made. |