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CONCLUSION. 81
respect of its sanitary proceedings, I have been
compelled, in the course of my present Report, to
trench upon many subjects which do not customarily
fall under your consideration, and which (as I
have stated) may by some be considered as utterly
foreign to your jurisdiction and province.
It rests with your Honourable Court to determine
what course you will adopt in respect of such
departments of the great sanitary scheme;-whether
you will retain them under your consideration, and
will assume the responsibility of dealing with them
in proportion to their magnitude and importance,
or will transfer them to the Court of Common
Council for the less restricted deliberation of that
body.
Let me once more declare my profound conviction
of their importance to the health and welfare
of the City.
To provide an inoffensive outfall for the sewerage
of our vast population; to render the river a
source of unqualified advantage; to give an indefinite
extension and a sounder principle to the
system of water-supply; to suppress all trades
and occupations which taint the atmosphere with
materials of organic decomposition; to abate the
nuisance of smoke; to provide the facilities for
extramural interment, and to procure the prohibition
of all further burial amidst our living; to improve
the domestic arrangements of the poor, and
to insure for them an adequate supervision; to
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