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of expense which I do not think the

Colony

can bear, and some

again which, in

my.

exist. nor desire to have them abated if practicable- Nuisances of vaun's Kinds

opinion

are

too highly coloured and

hardly before the

must exist in all large Towns, but I

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warranted by the evidina before.

Committee, or the actual encumstances of

the chass

Chris

brought forward, or I

may

add

the wants of the city, the Committee is

aware that Victoria has been even under

the

so called defective arrangements, steadity advancing towards a

perfection

degree of Sanitary

to which it was never-antiei

never-anticipated it anta attain. The Colonial Surgeon's Reports from year to year will fully show

this

and I am

imagine

I wish it to be distinctly understood, for from wishing the Committee to

that, I do not think nuisances

maintain they

with

any

are

fewer

town I have

here in comparison

ever seen in the

Enst under Emopean management.

of

I fail to abourse in the

the Report

the leommittee the faintest allusion to

Military works of drainage, latrines, or

otherwise, or their connection or

amalgamation

with those

of

the Colony,

this I understood

the

was one

of

principal objects for the ~

appointment of

to decrease

the Commission, and so as

if posible the sickness amongst

the Troops. All Military Sewers are on

the same

principle

ал

those

of

the

Colony

and as these contain a far greater amount

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