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epidemic, the numbers rise to 10, 15, 20, 31, 58, and 88 

 weekly, and then progressively fall through the same 

 measured steps. They also march through the kingdom 

 in a sort of natural order, as the small-pox epidemic, 

 destroying 30,812 persons during two winters, two springs, 

 three summers, and three autumns, progressed first on 

 the West side of our island, from Liverpool, up to the 

 metropolis, then raged into the Midland districts, and 

 reached Norfolk, and came down by the Eastern coast 

 to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



What, then, are the remedies proposed for this enormous 

 annual waste of life, as a deduction from the preceding 

 facts ? 



1. As in Lower Austria, no factories or mills be per^ 

 rnitted to be built in large towns for the future ; and this 

 step is necessary for the improvement of the sanitary 

 condition of our most rapidly increasing population in the 

 West Riding towns. Leeds, which 40 years since con- 

 tained only 53,162 inhabitants, is now trebled^ to 152,054 ; 

 Sheffield, in 1801, had 31,314, and is now more than 

 doubled^ to 68,186; Bradford, which in 1801 contained 

 only 6,393, is now multiplied nearly six times, to 34,560 ; 

 Huddersfield, from 7,268, increased to 25,068 ; Halifax, 

 from 8,886, to 19,881; and Wakefield, from 8,131 in 

 the year 1801, to 14,754 in 1841. 



2. That certain Geological sites be chosen for these 

 mills, when practicable, as a rocky, elevated, and dry 

 locality, with good stone contiguous, since the workmen's 

 houses eventually will follow the mills, and the quality of 

 the adjacent building materials, whether stone or clay, will 

 determine the size of the streets, houses, &c. 



3. Respecting the houses, Sfc. — That building acts compel 

 the drainage, paving, and sewerage of the streets and founda- 

 tions, before being built upon; that the rooms of both 



