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have you observed an appreciation of morals and character graduated 

 according to the circumstances and condition of life ? 



2d. Have you found physical distress to present a bar to your moral 

 and religious instructions, and do you think relief from their bobily 

 ailments would enable you to be of greater service to the poor in 

 your calling? 



3d. Have you observed that personal and domiciliary negligence 

 and filthiness tend to depress still more the moral sensibility, and 

 make the poor more reckless of character — and do you believe that 

 domiciliary and personal, cleanliness, though combined with an equal 

 degree of poverty, give to the individual or family more self respect, 

 more aptitude to receive instruction, and more happiness ? 



4th. If constrained by law to keep themselves, their furniture, 

 clothing and dwellings, more clean, by frequent use of water and 

 lime, do you think there would be a greater inclination to improve 

 their associations, and obtain a better state of moral and social 

 feeling ? 



5th. In your opinion, would regular domiciliary visits by an 

 officer of health, empowered to enforce a law to promote the clean- 

 liness ot house and persons, have any influence in raising the tone 

 of feeling among the poor, as well as relieving sickness and pro- 

 longing life? 



6th. Are there not many who would be pleased to be aided and 

 instructed in the best mode of improving the condition of their 

 dwellings, and be glad to receive the visits of such an officer? 



7th. Can you relate any instances bearing on the subject, or ap- 

 plicable as illustrations to either of the queries? 



From Rev. George Hatt, Missionary of \st and 2d Wards. 



Answer 1st. It is impossible to state to what extent a bad i/iflu- 

 ence is produced by the congregation of diffi;rent sexes in one apart- 

 ment, but that it tends to debase the mind, and more especially inf 

 the female, prevents the development of that sensitive modesty which 

 is her greatest charm, and her surest protection, I think no one can 

 doubt. Still, in my opinion, it is unfair and incorrect to measure 

 appreciation of character by outward circumstances, or condition of 

 life. The many offices to which the one apartment must be convert- 



