App.C to 5th Report of PLC:[F 161-162]
While systematic efforts on a large scale have been made to widen the streets, to remove obstructions to the circukation of free currents of air, to extend and perfect the drainage and sewege, and to prevent the accumulation of putrefying vegetable and animal substances in the places in which the wealthier class reside, nothing whatever has been done to improve the condition of districts inhabited by the poor. These neglected places are out of view, and are not thought of; their condition is known only to the patish officers and the medical men whose duties oblige them to visit the inhabitants to relieve their necessities and to attend the sick; and even these services are not to be perdormed without danger, SUch is the filthy, close and crowded state of the houses and the posonous condition of the localities in which the greater part of the houses are situated from the total want of drainage, and the masses of putrefying matter of all sorts which are allowed to remain and accumulate indefinitely, that during the last year, in several of the parishes, both relieving officers and medical men lost their lives in consewuence of the brief stay in these places which they were obliged to make in the performance of their duties.