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90 HABITATIONS AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE POOR.
her eyes, the retributive seeds of increase for crime,
turbulence, and pauperism.
While I refer to these painful topics, I may remind
your Honourable Court of the Report of your
Committee on Health, in respect of the same heads
in my previous communication, and may strengthen
myself with their testimony; "We feel it due to
Mr. Simon to add, from the result of personal investigation,
that the statements contained in his
Report under this subject, distressing as they are,
are not exaggerated and, as regards whatever I
may have recapitulated from that Report, I would
beg leave to add, that my experience during the
past year has confirmed the opinions which I then
expressed ; assuring me more and more, that the
correction of these crying evils must advance simultaneously
with the other labours of sanitary reform.
Recently, while having the honour to attend your
Committee of Health in their deliberations on your
Act of Parliament, I have submitted to them, as
my view of what is desirable for legislation on the
subject of my present section, substantially the
same suggestions as I formerly laid before your
Honourable Court. As their recommendations must
shortly come before you for consideration, and as I
entertain the deepest conviction that the subject
is of paramount importance to the cause in which
you are interested, I have hoped you would excuse
my recurrence to it, and my brief repetition