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III. Suggested Alterations in the Act of
Parliament.
Finally, gentlemen, considering that you are about
to procure a renewal of your Act of Parliament,
and that you contemplate strengthening it with such
additional clauses as may render it effective for the
eradication of all preventable disease within the City
of London, I would ask permission, in this point of
view, to submit to you in a connected series, such
modifications as in my judgment would contribute
to that purpose. Most of these I have already had
the advantage of suggesting to your Committee on
Health; and to many of them I have adverted by
anticipation, in previous passages of my Report. I
would beg to enumerate the desiderata under the
following heads, viz.
1. A clause, which would give you control over
the supply and distribution of water, would enable
you in your corporate capacity to contract with any
person or any company for the total service of the
City; and would authorise you to defray the expenses
of such contract by certain specified rates.
2. A clause empowering you to require, that
every trade or manufacture practised within the
City shall be carried on with such precautions, and
with such available improvements, from time to time,
as shall reduce to the lowest practicable amount
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