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MORTALITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON. 11
II. Incomplete and insufficient water-supply.
III. Offensive or injurious trades and occupations.
IV. Intramural burials.
V. Houses insusceptible of ventilation, and absolutely
unfit for habitation.
VI. The personal habits of the lowest classes,
and the influence of destitution in increasing their
mortality.
In treating of these topics, I shall not pretend
to bring before you all the details on which my
opinions are founded, or to enumerate under each
head those infinite individual instances which require
sanitary correction. It is my wish at this
time to submit to you only such general considerations
as may show you the largeness of the subject,
its various ramifications, and its pressing importance
; and it is my hope that these considerations
may suffice to convince you of the necessity
which exists, for some effective and permanent
sanitary organization of the City of London.