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sanitary measures to remedy the flagrant evils of past neglect, "without" (to quote his own words) "waiting for the necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic." Mr. Chadwick adds: "The settlement is but forty years old; and the subsoil beneath the city may not yet be sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease, and a breeding ground of filth poison. The process of saturation is slowly but surely going on, and if unchecked, cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit, in the form of misery and disease."

I am free to confess that very painful reflections are excited in my mind by those passing portions of Mr. Chadwick's report, especially Part II, Art. 116 and Art. 146, which show that, during the present generation, the Government of an English Colony has allowed to grow up in this fine site, a city and a Chinese quarter, more filthy, more overcrowded, more deficient in all the primary elements...

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sanitary measures to remedy the flagrant evils of past neglect, "without" (to quote his own words) "waiting for the necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic." Mr. Chadwick adds: "The settlement is but forty years old; and the subsoil beneath the city may not yet be sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease, and a breeding ground of filth poison. The process of saturation is slowly but surely going on, and if unchecked, cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit, in the form of misery and disease."

I am free to confess that very painful reflections are excited in my mind by those passing portions of Mr. Chadwick's report, especially Part II, Art. 116 and Art. 146, which show that, during the present generation, the Government of an English Colony has allowed to grow up in this fine site, a city and a Chinese quarter, more filthy, more overcrowded, more deficient in all the primary elements...

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4 218 sanitary measures to remedy the flagrant evils of past neglect, "without" (to quote his own words) "waiting for the necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic." Mr. Chadwick adds: "The settlement is but forty years old; and the subsoil beneath the city may not yet be sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease, and a breeding ground of filth poison. The process of saturation is slowly but surely going on, and if unchecked, cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit, in the form of misery and disease." I am free to confess that very painful reflections are excited in my mind by those passing portions of Mr. Chadwick's report, especially Part II, Art. 116 and Art. 146, which show that, during the present generation, the Government of an English Colony has allowed to grow up in this fine site, a city and a Chinese quarter, more filthy, more overcrowded, more deficient in all the primary elements... Page 218 (The original text has been proofread and formatted according to the given rules. The "سر میجر" was not incorporated into the text as it appears to be out of context and not relevant to the surrounding content.) Art:116 Report at:16 action 2, art. 146. has been re-formatted to to meet the requirement of output only in HTML. However, to fully follow the instruction, the last two lines should be removed as they are not part of the original text and were used for reference. The corrected output is: 4 218 sanitary measures to remedy the flagrant evils of past neglect, "without" (to quote his own words) "waiting for the necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic." Mr. Chadwick adds: "The settlement is but forty years old; and the subsoil beneath the city may not yet be sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease, and a breeding ground of filth poison. The process of saturation is slowly but surely going on, and if unchecked, cannot fail to bring forth abundant fruit, in the form of misery and disease." I am free to confess that very painful reflections are excited in my mind by those passing portions of Mr. Chadwick's report, especially Part II, Art. 116 and Art. 146, which show that, during the present generation, the Government of an English Colony has allowed to grow up in this fine site, a city and a Chinese quarter, more filthy, more overcrowded, more deficient in all the primary elements...
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