The Dwelling House
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Scholars and students researching public health history, architectural history, and environmental history
- Readers interested in the evolution of modern ideas about domestic sanitation
- Those who want to understand the historical origins of everyday knowledge such as ventilation and damp-proofing
- Writers who need public-domain English technical historical sources for reference
Not a good fit for
- Practitioners looking for contemporary residential design codes or construction guides
- General readers seeking modern medical or health advice
- Readers who prefer light narrative and lack patience for technical discussion
Reading tips
- Start with the table of contents and select chapters by topic such as ventilation, drainage, and lighting; there is no need to read from beginning to end.
- While reading, note the sanitary assumptions of the author's era and compare them with contemporary standards.
- Background materials on public health history or architectural history can help clarify the real-world orientation of the issues discussed.
- Technical details can be skipped at first; focus on the author's basic judgments about the relationship between dwellings and health.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
George Vivian Poore (1843-1904) was a nineteenth-century British author concerned with public health and the living environment. Two of his works are held in this collection: London from the Sanitary and Medical Point of View and The Dwelling House. As the titles suggest, his writing centres on urban sanitary conditions, housing, and dwelling problems viewed from a medical perspective, taking the city environment and everyday homes as objects of examination, with a clear social concern and practical orientation. Public information is limited, and details of his life, education, and professional career cannot be reliably confirmed; this sketch therefore outlines his writing only on the basis of his subject matter. As far as the available information shows, he was an author who approached issues through sanitation and housing, and his works offer some reference value for understanding contemporary discussions of urban sanitary reform and living conditions.
