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These memoranda, Gentlemen, collated for
your information, I beg to lay before you, promising
that next year's works, and also each
successive one for some time to come, must of
necessity be more and more important as regards
the Sanitary condition and general improvement
of our Parish.
That improvements to a great extent have taken
place under the new system, is I venture to assert
apparent on the surface of our thoroughfares,
below ground the result of the labour and expense
which has been gone to, must be sought for in the
improved condition of our House drainage, Water
supply, and other sanitary appliances, which recent
legislature has provided for, and if a retrospective
glance be permitted at the original extent of those
fruitful sources of evil, viz.: open and foul watercourses,
which this Yestry has caused to be annihilated
during the last few years, to the extent of
some miles, (and the few remaining ones I predict
are doomed to a similar and I hope speedy fate,
by reason of the works of sewerage soon about to
be undertaken in this vicinity ;) you may I think
take credit that the powers entrusted to you have
been efficiently administered, and that the past