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As this is the last report it will be my
privilege to address to you as Commissioners
of Sewers, in consequence of your having been
consigned to an unnatural and violent death
in the very zenith of your powers, utility,
success, and popularity, I beg to convey to you
my grateful sense of the uniform kindness
and confidence reposed in me for nearly
twenty-four years, and assure you I view with
deep regret the severance of my official relations
with your honourable body. To one and all
I beg, with the utmost respect, to tender
my warmest thanks for the consideration
uniformly shown towards me, and for the
generous and unfailing support you have
given to the many reforms and changes that
have been inaugurated by continuous and
progressive legislation in general, and our own
sanitary organisation in particular, during
that long period of time, and with which the
credit of the Department I have had the honour
to direct has been so intimately associated.
It will ever remain a source of pride and
satisfaction to feel that any part I may