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CONCLUSION.
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fore; the important functions assigned to your
Inspectors of Nuisances will now require to be discharged,
under the superintendence of your Officer
of Health, with uninterrupted assiduity and vigilance;
and I would therefore take the liberty of
begging your Honourable Court to refer this subject
to the consideration of your Committee, together
with some other points relative to the administration
of your new powers.
Here, gentlemen, terminates my statement of the
powers now vested in you for the maintenance of
the public health. Authority so complete for this
noble purpose has never before been delegated to
any municipal body in the country. In exercising
the means of such wide beneficence, your Honourable
Court will be discharging duties of immeasurable
importance to the public welfare; and those
who have the honour and responsibility of giving
you professional advice will have a task of more
than ordinary difficulty.
It is easy to foresee the numerous obstacles
which interested persons will set before you to
delay the accomplishment of your great task.
Sometimes technical objections will be raised to
your proceedings: sometimes vexatious delays and
evasions will occur in the fulfilment of your injunctions.
When your orders are addressed to some owner
of objectionable property—of some property which is