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small, ill-ventilated, undrained and
thickly congregated. They are deficient in all the appliances of cleanliness. The social habits of the people, which it is difficult to control, add intensity to the external evels of their position. Though they had the floace of Reine to receives their filth, they would retain more) They however
ute water
than they reject . freely,
and were
the localities of their abode efficiently drained, this indiscriminate habit would
be in many respects a safeguard __. Fresh wata; however, although abundants in the Island, is as scarce and cxpension luxury with the people. It is brought from a distance, and in dry weather obtained with difficulty. at
at an undue cxpened wither of -labour, and, Iregret to add, from objectionable fources, such as the public drains, or stagnant receptacks of rain water A few truble wells or fountains
fountains would be
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carily, constructed, and teed qually to the
greatly
eeefort, shambanels and tability of the
fity
The largo
drains which convery
peservoirs
of filth,
the torrents from the mountains to the sea, and serve also for are open in the upper parts of the bity.
their excessive declivitiy .
consequenes of
the air, at a short distance
openings, becomes to foul that it will
from these
not support combustion,
an evidenc
of
its deleterious qualities . As then drains
the
empty
themselves into
Lear
below high-
: water mark, the tide rises into them, and
forces the foul
aip
through the upper
openings. Conry person who lives in the
the vents
can te
testify
to the
vicinity of practical buth of this affection, from the disgusting odours
odours which ainanate at
different periods of the day from the drains. The surrounding
air thus becomes