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72 SUGGESTIONS FOR SANITARY ORGANIZATION.
3. That, while trades injurious to health or
offensive to their neighbourhood are suffered to
continue within the City, there should be given
periodical reports on the condition of such establishments,
to the end that they may be maintained
so as to be least detrimental to the public health.
4. That a record of every death registered as
occurring in the population of the City should lie
before the Committee ; and
5. I consider it quite indispensable, that they
should likewise receive the largest and most accurate
returns which can be procured of all sickness
occurring among the poorer classes; and
(particularly in respect of all epidemic, endemic,
and infectious disorders) that the medical practitioner
who communicates the fact of illness, should
likewise report the existence of any local causes,
or other influences of general operation, which
have tended to produce, or are tending to continue,
such illness.
On the subject of returns of the nature last
referred to, I have already, on various occasions,
submitted my opinion to the judgment of your
Honourable Court. A year ago, in the first Report
which I had the honour to make here, and in
various discussions which during some months followed
the reception of that Report, I stated how