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be left unsaid a great part of what I Rhould have liked to ha-^e 
aid, more particularly about the abuse of water and the methods 
•kith will sooner or later have to be adopted to put an end to 
it, unless indeed the people of the City deliberately make up 
Asir minds to spend h a million sterling in going to the Oropuche 
we prepared to pay the piper in the shape of heavy water 
Dr. Lovell said he felt and appreciated much the honour 
Ibt had been paid to him by having been called upon to take 
chair, as well as to take part in the discussion on the 
paper which had just been read by Mr. Wrightson, and which he 
‘assure from the importance of the question dealt with they 
™ all, like himself, followed with the deepest interest. It was 
jot merely a personal interest which he took in this matter, but 
“ felt that it was but right that the department of which he 
! rjs die head should always go hand in hand with the Go\ ernmen^ 
“ 1,1 matters connected with the water supply of the Colony, 
“cause upon the purity or otherwise of that supply the health oi 
! « community mainly depended. He could assure “J 
"as considerably interesting to him to hear what Mr. n S 1 8 ! 
!lstl said about the steps which were likely to be taken in 
connection with our water supply. Shortly after lus ai 1 1 \ a 
Colony, he thought it his duty to draw the attention of the 
Wnment to the danger of having unprotected "water-shed 
Ann’s and Maraval. Observations at the time had pro 
^t they were more exposed to danger trom c ® 
0Ur< * than the former, from the fact that having had seve a 
Samples of the water from that source of supply brought toh.m, 
lle Wnd that if it was allowed to lie undisturbed for y ^ ^ 
aunutes, its impurities were plainly to be 8ee ' n . , . ° 
double to lie combatted with in England was yp 1 contend 
tlie }’ had not only typhoid but malarial ^ e • ent t0 a 
gainst, as well as all those diseases which wen; was no t 
< onsiderable extent upon an impure water ^ u pp .v ( ; ! 0 i ss ;. ms 
j? much to sav that from 25 to 30 per oent thb «« ^ ^ 
! to our hospitals were of this class ot disease.. , iiny , V c e 
dilate to say that if the water supplies o ^ uioh ; t„ y 
Ntected as they should he from the J*?, ,» -ulmission s into our 
"ere at present subject., not only won > j e> death ive 
hospitals be considerably diminished I, bu an{1 l)t , J, roug.it 
"Mi now exists would likewise be ec • i? n , T ; ,. in d which v. 
ni,ire imo conformity with the death rate <» . * ^ ,,„i 
^Umatecl at something like 20 per 1 . 000 , J ^ , 1 pi c 
thousand. With the protection ot ■ V1 . l , u ’„i ■■ 
damage in Portrof-Spain he believed tha ,, would..- 
16 die healthiest colony in tlie British b F 
