Inaugural Address of Session 1891-92
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In my former address, I gave a brief review of some recent sanitary legislation, enacted with a view to aid local authorities in dealing with avoidable and preventable disease. It was demonstrated that this legislation was hygienically and fiscally a long way short of meeting the pressing necessities of the times in which we live. The permissive character of a good deal of it was found to be highly objectionable. The cost of providing healthy homes for the people is still rendered forbidding by the dominating existence of false and old-fashioned notions regarding the sacredness even of house property, which has been condemned by the Sanitary Authorities as unfit for human habitation, and by the multiplication of legal formalities and procedure, etc., which might easily have been made
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