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of expense which I do not think the Colony can bear, and some again which, in my opinion are too highly coloured and hardly exist, nor desire to have them abated if practicable. Nuisances of various kinds must exist in all large Towns, but I warrant that they are fewer here in comparison with any town I have ever seen in the East under European management.
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brought forward, or I may add the wants of the city, the Committee is aware that Victoria has been steadily advancing towards a degree of Sanitary perfection to which it was never anticipated it would attain. The Colonial Surgeon's Reports from year to year will fully show this, and I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not think nuisances are warranted by the evidence before the Committee, or the actual circumstances of the case.
I fail to find in the Report of the Committee the faintest allusion to Military works of drainage, latrines, or otherwise, or their connection or amalgamation with those of the Colony, this I understood was one of the principal objects for the appointment of the Commission, and so as to decrease if possible the sickness amongst the Troops. All Military Sewers are on the same principle as those of the Colony, and as these contain a far greater amount...