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become more and more impure, and there is reason
to fear that during the present Summer its condition
may be such as again to call forth the active
interference of the Sanitary Committee. This has
arisen, partly from the inefficiency of the overflow
weir at the East end of the Basin, and the consequent
stagnancy of the water, but principally from
the carelessness of the workmen employed on the
wharves, in allowing offensive and putrescible
matters to fall into the water in the process of
loading the boats. The attention of the Grand
Junction Canal Company, was on two occasions
last Spring directed to the evils likely to arise from
this practice; but there is reason to believe that it
still continues, and that a deposit of offensive
matter is now accumulating, which in a short time
will give rise to all the inconveniences against
which the Committee have so perseveringly directed
their efforts in former years The inefficiency
of the Weir was also reported on, early last
season, but no improvement has been effected by
the Company.
I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. B. SANDERSON.
9, Gloucester Place;
13th July, 1861.