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and that this education is no hopeless or difficult task, the success
which has attended the constant service in other places abundantly
testifies. All at any rate will agree to this, that some measure
must be adopted to prevent the waste of water which would otherwise
be inevitable, and from which sooner or later we should be
sad sufferers, and also the possibility of the contamination of the
water, with all the horrors of disease in its train. The question in
dispute is—Are the regulations proposed unnecessarily stringent
for the purpose of avoiding the dangers that may arise from these
causes ? In answering this question, both companies and people
must remember that a very false view will be obtained if they regard
it merely from a single stand-point, that stand-point being their
own likes and dislikes.
I cannot resist setting before you most strongly the enormous
gain the establishment of waste-water preventers, with a constant
service, would be in our poor courts, which, since my appointment,
I have particularly inspected, and I shall, therefore, certainly do all
in my power, when opportunity occurs, to bring the change about.
The storage of water in the poorer parts of Islington (as I have
pointed out elsewhere) is in a very unsatisfactory condition. In
Whitechapel, by the perseverance of Mr. Liddle, a large number of
waste-water preventers have been erected, and both landlord and
people are loud in their praise.
SANITARY WORK OF THE YEAR 1872—73.
Table XIV. The latter portion of this table represents the
Sanitary Amendments which have been accomplished through the
activities of the Inspectors, as set forth in the former part, which
shows the number of inspections which were made by them in the
course of the year. The improvements which are enumerated do
not, however, exhibit all the good which undoubtedly results from
the important work of Sanitary Inspection, as there are many
things which could not be tabulated.
For instance, the 5345 visits paid to the 110 courts aud alleys
during the year, add very little comparatively to the latter portion
of the table, though most essential as keeping a check upon the
Contractor, and in securing the cleanliness of places, any one of