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formation of long and wide streets, wherever the houses are thickest, 

 and the jungle-gardens most extensive. On the Map, the lines co- 

 lored purple, represent the proposed streets. Ventilation, drainage, 

 cleanliness, facility of access, and the easy suppression of fire, are all 

 combined in this suggestion, and these considerations are of the 

 utmost importance in a native town. The formation of these streets 

 will indubitably have a most beneficial effect on the health of the in- 

 habitants, but the principle on which their construction rests, is one 

 which cannot be too extensively carried out, and I beg to attract the 

 special attention of the authorities, to the necessity of their giving it 

 their most special attention. 



23. There are various other considerations in the extensive subject, 

 which has been passed over, on the supposition either that the report 

 might become too prolix, or the propriety of the subject in such a place, 

 might be questioned. I allude principally to education. It is by this 

 means alone that the moral condition of the Mugh can be effectually 

 and permanently improved, and it is to this means we naturally look 

 for an amelioration of his present debased habits. It will, I am afraid, 

 be considered irrelevant to the subject to point out and urge the 

 adoption of this plan, to prevent disease by elevating the moral and 

 social condition of the man, and I therefore reluctantly relinquish the 

 subject. 



24. It has been shewn that nearly half the diseases arise from 

 locality alone, but much has been done to raise what was formerly a 

 wretched swamp to a large town, full of human beings, in compara- 

 tively few years. The reflection of this fact, however, would only give 

 new zest for an increase of exertion, and my endeavour has been to 

 point out in a practical manner, and to which I have given a practical 

 application, remedies for the suppression of disease. Sedulously avoid- 

 ing the use of scientific terms, and endeavouring to discover a 

 means of ameliorating and elevating the condition of the people, by 

 first analyzing a popular, general and acknowledged law, and sub- 

 sequently shewing its application to the case in point. By these 

 means debatable ground has been avoided, and I have striven to 

 found the foregoing sanatory observations on principles of acknow- 

 ledged truth. 



