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wholesome houses, and for diminishing that fatal
overcrowding, against which I have had no sufficient
authority to contend.
The removal of your great cattle-market has yet
to fulfil some of its most important uses: for I trust
that the abattoirs connected with your new Smithfield
will soon have proved so attractive to many
persons who now slaughter within the City, as to
justify you in procuring authority to extramuralise
the remainder of this craft; and I cannot doubt
that the same institution will soon enable you to
remove from the neighbourhood of Leadenhall
Street that nuisance of the hide-market to which
I have so often adverted.
Within a few weeks the opening of your new
Cemetery, now all but completed, will have terminated
for the City for ever the nuisances and
scandals of intramural burial, and will have given
you the means of greatly diminishing those evils
which belong to a retention of the dead within the
chambers of the living.
Two years hence—and the time will have arrived
for the Water Companies, in accordance with
the requirements of the Legislature, to have completed
their alteration of the intermittent, for the
constant system of supply; and to this change,