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With this object they once more appeal to the parishioners
for intelligent co-operation, especially to such as by their
avocations are brought into contact with residents in the
poorer and more crowded districts. The Vestry will be glad
at all times to receive early information of any nuisance or
supposed nuisance. It is not absolutely necessary that the
name and address of the informant should be given in all
cases, although it is very desirable that this should be done
where possible, in order to save loss of time in fruitless
inquiry.
Another and most valuable mode of assisting and maintaining
a high degree of public health is for each householder
to insist upon scrupulous cleanliness being observed
in the premises under his control.
It cannot be too strongly urged that proper precautions
against infection will also do much to insure immunity
from sickness generally. The great preventive of disease
is cleanliness—cleanliness in living, cleanliness of person,
and cleanliness of surroundings. The Vestry, as the local
Sanitary Authority, are constantly striving after this
condition of things, but unless the parishioners generally
heartily co-operate in their several spheres, a great part of
the work of the Vestry will be rendered nugatory.
DUST REMOVAL.
In consequence of the varying requirements of the
occupiers of property even in the same street, the Vestry
have not found it either practicable or desirable to arrange
for a house-to-house visit of the dustmen in particular
streets on specified days. The contractors are required to
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