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them, and under their directions; work which could
not otherwise have been done, and which cannot but
have prevented a vast amount of disease and misery
if not of death. I cannot but attribute the decreased
mortality of the last two years to your wise determination,
to keep up the Sanitary Department to a
standard, by which not only known nuisances and
causes of disease are at once removed, but the homes
of the poor inspected, and the very beginnings of
the causes of disease and death removed.
I have the honour to be,
Rev. Sir, My Lords, and Gentlemen,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
EDWIN LANKESTER.