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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