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sanitary measures to remedy the flagrant evils of past neglect, "without" (to quote his own words) "waiting for the necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic." Mr. Chadwick adds: "The settlement is but forty years old; and the subsoil beneath the city may not yet be sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease, and a breeding ground of filth poison. The process of saturation is slowly but surely going on, and if unchecked, cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit, in the form of misery and disease."
I am free to confess that very painful reflections are excited in my mind by those passing portions of Mr. Chadwick's report, especially Part II, Art. 116 and Art. 146, which show that, during the present generation, the Government of an English Colony has allowed to grow up in this fine site, a city and a Chinese quarter, more filthy, more overcrowded, more deficient in all the primary elements...
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sanitary measures to remedy the flagrant evils of past neglect, "without" (to quote his own words) "waiting for the necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic." Mr. Chadwick adds: "The settlement is but forty years old; and the subsoil beneath the city may not yet be sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease, and a breeding ground of filth poison. The process of saturation is slowly but surely going on, and if unchecked, cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit, in the form of misery and disease."
I am free to confess that very painful reflections are excited in my mind by those passing portions of Mr. Chadwick's report, especially Part II, Art. 116 and Art. 146, which show that, during the present generation, the Government of an English Colony has allowed to grow up in this fine site, a city and a Chinese quarter, more filthy, more overcrowded, more deficient in all the primary elements...