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the largest amount of organic matter were those of the
Southwark and Lambeth Companies, and which are
supplied to this District.
2. A continuous service of water (which need not be filtered)
through the sewers, for the more rapid removal of their
contents and the consequent prevention of decomposition
and its gaseous products which at present form
such a constant and serious nuisance in the public
thoroughfares, and which will, if unremedied, most
probably eventuate in some great and calamitous
epidemic.
3. The establishment of Baths and Washhouses.
4. A more frequent and systematic removal of House
refuse.
5. A more efficient scavengering and cleansing of the
streets, especially in the bye-ways and in the precincts
of the dwellings of the poor.
6. A law to suppress the nuisances arising from the
keeping of swine.
7. An improvement in the law relating to noxious trades.
8. Well provided mortuaries in the Sub-districts not
already so supplied.
9. A hot-air apparatus for the purification of infected
clothing.
10. The prohibition of the return to school of children
absent on account of sickness without a certificate from
their medical attendant that they may do so without
injury to themselves or others. A printed certificate
to this effect, requiring only the signature of the
Medical Attendant, is all that is needed to prevent a
very fruitful source of the propagation of contagious
diseases.
11. A preliminary medical investigation into the cause of
every death which has not been certified by medical