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Stock Exchange, &c., and many enormous
insurance, banking, and gigantic commercial
establishments. In addition to these there
are no less than eighteen railway stations in
the City.
The business of attending to this class of
complainants—merchants, bankers, warehousemen,
&c.—is necessarily more onerous
than with poorer dwellings, and entails
numerous appointments with owners, architects,
builders, and others. It is not an
uncommon thing for an Inspector to have as
many as ten of such places to visit in a single
day. This portion of the work has been
steadily increasing during the last few years,
and absorbs much of the time of the
Inspectors.
It has been objected that the City of London
is only one square mile, and that therefore the
necessary operations of the Sanitary Department
are restricted to this area; but a
moment's reflection will dispose of this fallacy
when we remember the conditions under which