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itth January, 1890. 



John Brown, Esq., read a Paper on 



THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS, 



Which, with the Discussion, is printed in extenso as Appendix 

 I. to this Report. 



/[th February, 1890. 



John H. Greenhill, Esq., in the Chair. 



DISCUSSION ON SANITATION. 



Professor Letts said : — I find it somewhat difficult to explain 

 why I have been selected to strike the keynote, as it were, to 

 the important business of the evening, inasmuch as I am not a 

 practical sanitarian, and have never devoted myself particularly 

 to the subject. Perhaps, indeed, it is my entire ignorance as 

 regarded the practical aspect of the question which offers the 

 only excuse for my being placed in this position. However, of 

 the theoretical side of the subject I am of course, from the nature 

 of my profession, obliged to know something, and upon this 

 department I may be permitted to say a few words, though I 

 may say at the outset I have no intention whatever of inter- 

 fering with any of the practical details. 



We may take it that the health of a community depends 

 upon the supply of fresh air, good and abundant food, pure 

 water, and facilities for the removal of excrementitious and 



