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78 SUGGESTIONS FOR SANITARY ORGANIZATION.
rubbish from houses, according to the terms of
their contract, except on the tenant's payment of
an additional gratuity; and it must be obvious to
your Honourable Court that the arrangements
which you have made by contract for this purpose
are virtually defeated as regards the poorer population,
when the removal of refuse-matter is made
contingent on the gift of beer-money by those
whose means are so restricted.
It is in respect of matters of this sort, and of
such only, that I think the services of the PoliceForce
might usefully be employed. Their want of
special education, and their employment in other
duties, are circumstances which appear to me quite
conclusive for objecting to their utilization as sanitary
reporters. But while I entertain the opinion
that their employment in the latter direction
would be both fruitless and inconvenient, I would
submit that their numbers and their diffusion
through the City qualify them well to act against
all causers of nuisance, as they act against other
offenders, both defectively and preventively; and
I would venture to repeat a suggestion, which I
made in January last, 'that the police should consider
it part of their duty, to report on every nuisance
within their knowledge, and on every infraction
of such sanitary rules as this court may
establish.'