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the above-mentioned localities that are not already provided with
such important Sanitary arrangements. The great fact must meet
you at every turn, that a very large number of streets in those
Districts are without main Sewers, wherein overflowing Cesspools,
choked Drains, and Privies have been emptied and cleansed only to
fill again; and wherein originate the principal causes of diseases
that annually carry off the large amount of your infantile population.
Without presuming too much upon the changes that can be
effected by human efforts, I may boldly venture to affirm that, in
proportion to the extension of the Sewerage, House Drainage, and
the thorough Ventilation of the dwelling houses, particularly of the
poorer classes in the District, so will the rate of sickness and
mortality be thereby diminished. It is, therefore, from the conviction
that your Towns will be relieved of a large amount of
human suffering; that your infantile population more particularly
will shew signs of improvement in health, strength, and general
development of their frames; that diseases which now assume
the most aggravated forms, will succumb to the more powerful
influences of pure and uncontaminated air; and that your rateable
property, which is now overwhelmed with many weighty incumbrances,
will be relieved of its burthens, that I have again pressed
upon you the extension of the Sewerage of your District.
I remain,
Your most obedient Servant,
HENRY N. PINK.
Crooms Hill, 26th May, 1858.
FLASHMAN, PRINTER, GREENWICH.