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LIFE IN MONTREAL. 



[Chap. VII. 



received constant urbanity, and even unexpected proofs of 

 confidence." " Thanks to the labour and perseverance of 

 Dr. Larocque, the Council have at last granted ruled forms for 

 the tabulation of its cemetery records . . . according to age, 

 sex, race, religion, disease, and ward." " The Hon. C. Dunkin 

 requested the co-operation of the Association, in preparing for 

 the approaching census. . . . Situations of great trust were ten- 

 dered to two of our leading officers. One of these, which 

 gave the control over the whole of the English population in 

 this part of Canada, was accepted by our Vice-President, 

 G. W. Weavers, Esq." 



Philip's name does not appear in the Reports of which he 

 was the author ; but at an Annual Meeting (1869), the Mayor, 

 W. Workman, Esq., who presided, said, " It would be both 

 unjust and ungrateful in me did I omit stating clearly, that 

 this Association is chiefly indebted for all its progress, and all 

 its good results, to the indefatigable labours and great ability 

 of an eminent citizen : I mean Dr. Carpenter, whom Providence 

 seems to have sent to our city to save our lives against our 

 very wills, as it were — for, remember, this Association has its 

 opponents. To the labours of this excellent man in this great 

 work, the citizens of Montreal owe much, but as yet have paid 

 nothing. Without fee or reward he has for years continued 

 these labours, lectured, published pamphlets, urged our Cor- 

 poration into more energetic action, and in the back streets 

 and slums sent such instruction and intelligence to the people 

 as to ward off sickness, which has no doubt saved thousands 

 of human lives." 



The greater the success of the Association, the more hos- 

 tility it naturally awakened among those who found themselves 

 put in the wrong, and had no intention of doing what was 

 right. One alderman "deprecated publishing statements about 

 the great mortality in the city, lest it should depreciate pro- 

 perty, and lessen the number of visitors ! " The visitors whose 

 number Philip wished to lessen were Disease and Untimely 

 Death ; and he never hesitated to denounce the sin of those 

 who knew how to do good and did it not. Some gentlemen, 



