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degree to arrest the progress of any future epidemic, and
to preserve the health of the people at large.
The overcrowding of the dwellings of the poor, is also a
subject the Health Officers consider should never cease to
occupy the serious attention of all large communities. The
erection of mansions, villas, and high class residences in
such numbers as is now being done throughout the District,
without a corresponding effort to supply suitable domiciles
for the rapidly increasing poor, is a policy, it is thought, that
cannot fail sooner or later, to tell most prejudicially upon
every section of the population. It is therefore to this
subject the Medical Officers of Health desire to invite the
special attention of all capitalists and philanthropists
resident in the District. For their individual opinions
upon this, and other questions of equal importance to the
sanitary welfare of the District, the Health Officers must
refer their readers to the local summaries which follow.