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I would apologise for extending my remarks to
this unusual length, by pleading a desire to make
more known and better appreciated the scope and
method of Sanitary inquiries. Indeed, a great
deal more ought still to have been written to accompany
the Statistics in the Appendix, and to show,
as Dr. Gairdner of Glasgow aptly* expresses it,
"the significance of facts taught by figures."
1 am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
WM HARDWICKE,
Medical Officer of Health,
Deputy Corornr for Central Middlesex,
&c., &c,