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SUGGESTIONS FOR SANITARY ORGANIZATION. 77
awful reality; that in lessening sickness and death,
it will have stayed a large source of pauperism, will
have diminished the number of occasional and
habitual claimants of Union relief, and will have
become a measure of real and considerable economy;—these
are points on which, with the utmost
sense of official responsibility, I beg to record my
deliberate conviction.
Accordingly, I have to recommend that any
Committee which may undertake the administration
of sanitary affairs for the City, shall be furnished
as completely as possible with information of the
nature I have specified.
Another element to which I think it necessary
to advert, in connexion with a future sanitary organization
for the City, is this,—that some permanent
arrangement should be made, by which the
maintenance of exterior and interior cleanliness,
the enforcement of scavengers' duties, the suppression
of nuisances, and the like, should be brought
under habitual and systematic surveillance ; one,
by which all breaches of your present or future
sanitary regulations may be quickly detected, and
may be visited with their appropriate penalties as
speedily and as certainly as possible. I am induced
the rather to bring this subject before you, as complaints
of scavengers' duties being neglected have
reached me at every turn. I am informed that it
is usual for them to refuse to remove dirt and