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your honourable Board to carry out, whenever it is practicable,
those drainage works which you have in anticipation; and to
press you to persist in that good work, in which during the
last two years you have been so earnestly and successfully
engaged,—the persistance in which cannot do otherwise than
eventuate in the permanent benefit of the parish.
It may have been anticipated, that the present Report would
be made the vehicle for some remarks on that subject in which
we, in common with all London, are so deeply interested
namely, the great drainage question. It has appeared to me,
however, after mature consideration, that there could be little or
110 advantage, in obtruding upon you any observations of my
own, in reference to the various schemes which are now before
the public,—that on the contrary, it would be merely contributing
my mite, towards throwing difficulties in the way of a subject
already complex and difficult enough. It is necessary that this
parish, and others similarly situated, should be efficiently
drained; it is necessary that the river should be dispolluted, or
at all events, that the present nasty and unwholesome results of
its pollution should be remedied; and to accomplish those ends
I sincerely trust that some scheme, approved by competent
authorities, and satisfactory to the ratepayers, may be speedily
determined on, and when determined on, carried into execution
without unnecessary delay.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. S. BRISTOWE, M.D.
June 16th, 1858.