58.
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of
ordure than
any
Colonial drain, if
the
but for the internal cleanliness
of
Chinese
System of the latter is to
undergo
a total
change, intercepting Sewers, Tanks, deodorants
might produce satisfactory results.
Without further preface I proceed
to remark upon
such
of
the
paragraphs
in
which I differ from the Committee. To the remainder I give my cordial assent, more especially to that relating to Police, for whatever be done by Government eventually, and whatever traps, drains, Privies, or Dustbins
be built,
a more stringent rule is
necessary than that now adopted for
the maintenance
of cleanliness, habits of decency, or the
ordinary rules of common sense, and
not only
Measures
are
these essential in
regard
to
mere outward cleanliness,
houses, and the prevention of overcrowding therein. I consider that much more
sickness is generated in such places than
is ever
produced from an untrapped drain,
which receives and discharges little more
than surface water.
Par 44...
It is remarkable that so
few
persons submitted
any grievances
or nuisances for the consideration of the Committee, if they had been of such a crying description as stated to be the case in a subsequent
paragraph I forward
presume
others would have
forward also. The
first: Nuisance
is remedied by the Police. The second
is caused by insufficient water at present,