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but I know that these Bodies always want outside pressure 

 to poke them : and I am going to give two lectures, and 

 expect to form a Sanitary Association, in which I presume 

 I shall have to be the chief worker. Of course, whatever 

 is done is equally useful, whether cholera comes, or no : and 

 these religious folk are so busy with their preachments and 

 prayings (all very well in their way), that there are few people 

 of brains to attend to the extra jobs." A few weeks later 

 (April 26) he wrote: "The two cholera ships and the 

 conduct of the Corporation . . . have at last roused people 

 up enough to start an Association. We began only on the 

 17th, with just a quorum, and are already a power in the 

 city. . . . After pupils, I have to do the business : then speak 

 at a meeting, then run off to Central Committee, then to 

 newspapers with reports, every night (Sundays, at Catholics) ; 

 and next week we make our onslaught on the French popula- 

 tion. Of course, it has to be done, and at once : and you may 

 be sure I enlist all I can to help, and don't spare money in 

 car-rides." 



He was one of the Secretaries (his colleague was Dr. 

 Bibaud, and afterwards Dr. Larocque), and their Report 

 (presented March, 1867) states that, on the formation of the 

 Association, "arrangements were immediately made for a series 

 of lectures and addresses in every ward in the city. District 

 Committees were organized after each : and Rules of Health 

 in French and English, which had been prepared with great 

 care, were everywhere distributed. The District Committees 

 visited their own neighbourhoods, and reported thereon to 

 the Central Council, which met nightly at the Mechanics' 

 Institution. The Council, after again visiting and reporting, 

 whenever it was judged necessary, presented their facts and sug- 

 gestions to the City Health Officers : and published daily in the 

 papers such particulars as were calculated to rouse all those 

 who were not hardened against every appeal, to abate the 

 nuisances of which the citizens justly complained. . . . The 

 work went on with great harmony and enthusiasm, till the 

 period of the Fenian raid. This, and the drill meetings conse- 



