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officers be left more free to extend their labours in a given time over a greater area,
in the prosecution of the important work of house-to-house visitation, and the removal
of nuisances.
It may be desirable that the Board, at every meeting, should be made acquainted
with the work done by the Inspectors; and I shall for the future, lay before you, in
my weekly statement, an account of the number of houses visited, and the works which
are required in each case to be carried out, which will afford an opportunity to any person
upon whom a notice has been served, to appear before the Board, or Committee of
Works, and urge his objection against the carrying into effect the orders of your
Inspectors.
I have in this Report, as in duty bound, spoken plainly; if in the opinion of some
members of the Board, too plainly, my apology is, the deep sense I entertain of the
importance of sanitary progress, for upon the success that shall attend the labours of
those engaged in this most sacred cause, depends the improvement of the social, moral,
and intellectual condition of the people.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Tour obedient Servant,
15, Great Alie Street,
7th August, 1858.
JOHN LIDDLE.