Where then do we stand?
And in what direction are we to look for the coming advance?
We have had some sixty years of public sanitation; we have secured a supply of sanitary experts to whom all questions affecting the physical welfare of masses of people may be referred.

We have a few architects who know the requirements of a _livable_ house, not merely one which shows off well as first built.
We _need_ sixty years of private-house sanitation.

We need to educate house experts, home advisers, those who know how to examine a house not only while it is empty but while it is throbbing with the life of the family.

This adviser must be, for many years at least, able to suggest practical methods of overcoming structural defects (more difficult than fresh construction), as well as of modifying personal prejudices.
These house experts will, I think, be women of the broadest education, scientific and social.

They will have not only a certain amount of medical knowledge, but also the tact and enthusiasm of the missionary which will bring them as friends and benefactors to the despairing mother and the discouraged householder.
That there is a beginning of this demand, I can testify; that it will grow, I believe.