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that this excellent arrangement may give its full
fruit, it will be requisite—though this again I need
hardly press on your consideration, that the duties
of scavengers and dustmen be thoroughly and
punctually performed.
Again, I would particularly advise that great
vigilance be exercised in all markets, slaughteringplaces,
and other establishments under your jurisdiction,
to prevent the retention of refuse matter,
animal or vegetable. I would urge the strictest
enforcement of all regulations which you have made
for the cleanliness of such places, and for the
removal of their putrefiable refuse.
Likewise, I have to suggest that after the month
of May, at latest, no disturbance of earth to any
considerable depth should be allowed to take place,
either in your works or in those of gas and water
companies, except under circumstances of urgent
necessity. In the lower levels of the City, particularly,
I conceive this prohibition to be a matter of
paramount importance; because the soil, never of
unexceptionable cleanliness in towns, is here especially
apt to be of offensive quality.
On the subject of water in its general relations
to the City, I have only again to express my deep
regret that it lies out of your present power to
compel a continuous supply, and that your means
are restricted to choosing what may best compensate
for the absence of this sanitary boon. It must
be your aim to mitigate, so far as may be, the evils