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SUGGESTIONS FOR SANITARY ORGANIZATION. 71
I may, perhaps, further assume that such a Committee
will have authority to entertain all subjects
relative to the sanitary improvement of the City,
and to make thereon such recommendations as
shall seem fit to them; and, further, that they will
make it their business to receive periodical intelligence,
as complete as possible, on all variations in
the public health, and on all circumstances likely
to affect it.
In order that any Committee, acting for sanitary
purposes within the City, shall have a reasonable
chance of success in its endeavours for the public
good, the following means of information will be
necessary for its use:—
1. That an account should be kept, corrected
year by year, of every house within the City; as to
the area of building, the number of floors, rooms,
and windows; as to its ventilation; as to its drainage,
water-supply, and other facilities for cleanliness;
as to its method of occupation, and number
of inhabitants.
2. That from this account there should be
made out, at least twice yearly, a list of houses
and streets remaining in an objectionable sanitary
state; and a list, also, of such as may have been
remedied to the satisfaction of the Committee since
the formation of their last preceding list.