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and is doing, mainly by the Inspectors of Nuisances.
I take this opportunity of saying that in my opinion
no Vestry has been better served than the Vestry of
Camberwell has been served by the four men who
are now Inspectors; they do their duties without
favour, and yet without exciting undue opposition;
and by the influence they have acquired outside the
Vestry secure the efficient performance of much
sanitary work of which a dry numerical summary can
give no notion, and of much which cannot be
tabulated.
Before concluding, their are two points on
which I should like to make a few remarks. One
relates to improvements which might be made in
the Sanitary Acts, the other relates to improvements
which might be effected in the sanitary
administration of the parish.
However free from faults the Sanitary Acts
might be made, I have no doubt that defects would
still be found in them, and that means of evading
them would be discovered and excuses made for not
putting some of the more important enactments into
force. On the other hand, I am sure that, notwithstanding
all their imperfections, vast good may be
accomplished by their aid, especially when those
who administer them show tact and knowledge in