CO129-081 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [4-7] — Page 344

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it is, and the Colonial, surgeon says "such advantages it is but fair

" with

it is but fair to expect Victoria

to be in every way

well regulated

as to water, -

"drainage, and other Sanitary Measures".

may

I sincerely hope that in course

be so,

himself perfectly

it

of time

but the leolonial Surgeon is-

aware that these measures

are

being hurried forward as fast

as the

the

development of the Town will permit,

and

funds at disposal authorize; it has hitherto

been

difficult to keep pace with the demands for building ground, by opening up new streets on reclaiming land from the sea, and it is only now when the Town has assumed in some places a finished appearance, and the population

Crowded into it, that a demand for water is necessary; nor world the Government have

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been anttionized at a much earlier period in - incurring the expence of regular water works, – Sir John Bowring

even maintained that it

was not the duty of Government, but of private individuals, of those (the Colonial Surgeonspacks)

" who

may in a few years be proud of their__ "beautiful Town"

The drainage of the finished portions

of the Town I maintain is as

peculiar admit of

Circumstances

perfect

as the

affecting its position will

In reference te proper drainage it is said "Nothing of importance seems to be undertaken hourly poured

"Yew and

Lynistic diseases an

as

" into the atmosphere," a figure of appech, imaginary in fact as connected with the present- state of drains which can or on

might

to be

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