The contaminated, and requires only synthetical agency of electricity to elaborate it into a wide-spreading, and deadly poison. This evil can be remedied by covering drains beyond the sphere of habitation.
It is a misfortune beyond the reach of any practical remedy, that the drains empty themselves into the "Harbour water" of a tidal basin, by which their refuse is slowly and imperfectly carried away.
The topography of Victoria affords no greater sources of malaria than those which ought to be the fountains of health, the public markets. They are wanting in every conceivable requisite of fitness, - position, cleanliness, construction, ventilation, and internal regulation and discipline.
The climate especially demands the reverse of all this. I observed early in the morning, persons in an advanced stage of disease lying over the principal butcher's stall. No consideration of vested rights, or of three hundred other personal objections to public improvements, should retain the present markets a day beyond the powers of the prompt decision and action. The recent multiplication of markets has been a multiplication of evils. They are the centres of filth and disease, with their congenial companions.
It has been shown that the various and too common forms of venereal disease are peculiar. They are indeed too often the foundation of the worst diseases in the Colony. Their social influence is obviously most hurtful, and it is most worthy of consideration whether some practicable remedial measures and system of inspection could not be devised to mitigate the evil.
Lastly, it may be remarked that the experience of every year, and the truths which accumulated facts elicit...
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