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34 SANITARY POWERS OF THE COMMISSION.
of Nuisances, whose duties were to consist in the
following particulars :—They were to superintend
and enforce the due execution of all duties to be
performed by the scavengers; to report to your Commission
all breaches of your rules and regulations;
to point out the existence of nuisances; to record
whatever complaints might arise in relation to the
supply of water, or in relation to any infraction,
either of the Act, or of any regulations made by
you under its authority for the preservation of order
and cleanliness, and for the suppression of nuisances.
Hitherto your Honourable Court has deemed it
sufficient compliance with the terms of the Act, to
engraft the functions above described on the office
of your previously appointed Inspectors of Pavements;
and these Officers have endeavoured very
diligently to fulfil the multifarious obligations thus
imposed on them. During the past year it has
become obvious to me that this arrangement of
their duties is inconvenient, and that the occupation
of their time as Inspectors of Pavements prevents
them devoting the requisite number of hours to
the other important duties.
I need hardly add, for the information of your
Honourable Court, that the immense increase of
sanitary business implied in your new Act (an increase
probably equivalent to doubling or trebling
the former amount) renders a continuance of the
former arrangement still less possible than