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At the same time it miglit be mentioned that Belfast is about to 

 be improved. Instead of taking part of its water from the filthy 

 Lagan, it is about to extend its waterworks, so as to get pure water 

 from the limestone hills with which it is surrounded. It is about 

 to shut up its out-door graveyards, and to open a park for the 

 recreation of the people. If the Social Science Congress should do 

 nothing more than quicken the authorities of Belfast in their in- 

 tentions to save their population from the suffering and death with 

 which it is now afflicted, it will have done a work which will give 

 it strong claims on the regard and sympathy of Belfast as long as 

 it shall be a city where human beings are striving to realize the 

 highest blessings of a kind Providence. 



