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the question demands the strictest investigation. In reference to this subject, we beg to call His Excellency's attention to the evidence given, by Dr. BELL, of Richmond, in an action connected with the uninhabitable condition of certain houses at Twickenham. The Doctor was examined as to the outbreak of a fever epidemic at Richmond, and he stated that he traced the cause in 300 houses directly to the drainage, and he found that as soon as the houses were disconnected or the drains laid down in a proper manner. the patients immediately began to recover, and that the type of the disease was not necessarily of a Typhoid character but took various forms, to the simple wasting away of the body without any apparent sign of disease.
F-We have drawn attention to some of the salient causes which appear to us worthy the investigation of His Excellency The Governor and the Sanitary Board; we do not pretend to have exhausted them; we do however venture to hope that His. Excellency will be pleased to take into his most favourable consideration and at his earliest possible convenience the various questions brought before him, so that no time may be lost in endeavouring to mitigate the cause of the severe suffering that has been, and is, visiting this locality, and which the advent of the cool weather has not checked.
We now respectfully urge that pending a thorough investigation into the cause of the above outbreak of sickness. His Excellency would be pleased to order :--
1. The removal of all the Hovels and Squatters on Inland Lot No. 795 for which we are advised the Government has power under existing Ordinances.
2. The stoppage of drying Sugar Bags on the Hill-side above the City. The
land to be drained and thickly planted with trees.
3. The infliction of heavy penalties on Native Gardeners convicted of using
offensive liquid manure within the limits of the City.
4. That all Garbage and Street Sweepings shall be removed to a distant locality and burned in a properly constructed scientific "Destructor." (We under- stand one was ordered by Government several years ago.)
5. That all Public Sewers, especially those in steep Streets shall be properly ventilated by having ventilators constructed about one hundred yards apart, according to the Local Government Board's recommendation, so as to relieve the pressure of the Sewer Gas at the upper levels.
6. That all marshy, soft, or boggy places near the respective watercourses on
the hill-sides be drained by surface drainage or otherwise.
We intend sending a copy of this letter to the several newspapers in the Colony.
We have the honour to be.
Sir,
Your most humble and obedient Servants,
E. MACKINTOSH.
E. R. BELILIOS.
WILLIAM WOTTON.
WILLIAM DANBY, M. Inst., C.E.
JNo. D. HUMPHREYS.
D. GILLIES.
H. N. MODY.
A, E. VAUCHER.
J. Y. V. VERNON. ALFRED G. WISE. HY. LIGHTWOOD. F. DODWELL. JOHN ANDREW.
F. H. O. WILSON.
GODFREY C. C. MASTER,
JNO. J. FRANCIS.
A. TURNER.
GILMAN & Co., Agents for Greenmount.
CHAS. C. COHEN.
JAS. B. COUGHTRIE.
A. O'D. GOURDIN.
A. E. SHELLIM.
T. H. WHITEHEAD.
RL. LEWER, Dy. Surgeon General, P.M.O. China & S.S.