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CONCLUSION. 79
Here, Gentlemen, terminates the list of subjects
which, on this occasion, I have thought it my duty
to bring before you. Long as the enumeration
may have appeared, I can assure you that my present
Report bears a very small proportion, in point
of dimensions, to the very large and very various
mass of materials on which it is founded. In compressing
it within the narrowest limits consistent
with intelligibility, and in excluding from it nearly
all details on the matters treated of, I have consulted
the convenience of your Honourable Court,
notwithstanding the greater labour and difficulty of
execution which belong to the plan I have adopted.
At any time, in Court or in Committee, when you
may wish to pursue the subject, I shall be ready to
enter at far greater length, and with more elaborate
minuteness, on any of those subjects which,
at the present opportunity, I have only sketched
for your general information.
In the matters which I have enumerated, some
lie distinctly within your province, as assigned by
the Act of Parliament; while others may be thought
to lie, just as distinctly, without that province. In
affairs strictly under your jurisdiction, and within
the present scope of the law, there remains very
much to achieve. The complete enforcement of
house-drainage, till every house washes itself into
the sewer; the more general distribution of water,
till every individual within the City has an