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some cases been laid some years ago, whereby the air of 
the sewer is mixed with that of the dwelling, to the 
detriment of the latter for respiratory purposes, it is 
desirable that the City Council should by its officers be 
empowered to enter and examine such connexions, along 
with all sanitary fittings, with a view to rectifying any 
want of efficiency that may be discovered. 
Clause 2 herein has, I am aware, about it a somewhat inquisitorial 
quality, and upon that ground will no doubt meet with opposition. 
inside the house ; and furthermore, they were, in a eneral 
sense, the first to avail themselves of the use of the sewer; there- 
fore, as in the early days of making connections with the sewer, 
the supervision was lax, if not abseut altogether, the work has 
been defectively executed in the first place, and, as examination 
has shown, the defects have become exaggerated by time. 
The examinations of such connections and fittings is therefore 
a very important desideratum in the promotion of health in the 
The Sanitary Assurance Association, England, seeing that an 
official inspection would be expensive to a community as well as 
odious to houscholders, proposed an alternative, that the authorities 
should require a certificate from a competent sanitary authority, 
that every house has been examined and found to possess sanitary 
with other efforts in the same direction to bring this noble a 
into an enviable condition as to its sanitary arrangements, octane 
natural formation so well lends itself to. 
