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incomplete, to be capable of affording the great practical
benefits which would be undoubtedly secured by their
complete fulfilment. The latter can be accomplished only
by the adoption of a system of a thoroughly searching and
unremitting nature, by which the refuse of every house
shall be regularly and periodically removed without the
necessity for any application by the householder to obtain
its removal.
These general remarks might be very greatly extended,
but it is considered that enough has been said to ensure
the attention of the readers of this report to the chief of
those measures which all true sanitary reformers believe it
to have been politic to put to the test of experience, as
well as to a few of those in prospective, the advantages or
disadvantages of which remain to be considered, and to
receive the judgment of the public.
The Medical Officers of Health must now refer their
readers to the Local Summaries, and Statistical Tables
which follow, believing there will be found therein more
indications than usual of sanitary progress, and of good
results.