By utilising, on some such plan as this, the increased staff which you have appointed for the purpose, and by giving to its execution my continual superintendence, I trust to be able, from time to time, to certify you that the City becomes better and better capable of resisting epidemic invasion.[85] From such statements as I have set before you, on the local affinities of disease--not of Cholera alone, but of typhus and its kindred, you will be prepared to expect increased sanitary advantage, from this more systematic suppression of the causes of death: and I believe you will not be disappointed. Whether the anticipated pestilence rage in our metropolis or not, you will be combating, day by day, the influence of other malignant diseases. Whenever it may be in my power to tell you generally of the City, that the dwellings of the poor are no longer crowded and stifling; nor their walls mouldy; nor their yards and cellars unpaved and sodden; nor their water-supply defective; nor their drainage stinking; nor their atmosphere hurt by neighbouring nuisances; then, gentlemen, whether Cholera test your success or not, surely you will have contributed much to conquer more habitual enemies. For whatever there may be specific and exceptional in the production of Cholera, at least it touches no healthy spot: the local conditions which welcome its occasional presence are, in its absence, hour by hour, the workers of other death; and in rendering a locality secure against the one, you will also have made it less vulnerable by the others. [85] I may take this opportunity of mentioning that, during the last few months, the increased sanitary staff has been worked with very great advantage.--J. S., May, 1854. As a last suggestion in this part of my subject, there are two steps which I would recommend to your Hon. Court, as likely to assist the labours of your officers, and to bring a large quantity of important information before you:--first (according to a plan adopted here in the last epidemic) that printed notices should be posted in every back-street, court and alley of the City, and should be renewed once a month, advising the careful maintenance of cleanliness in all houses, and inviting all persons who are aggrieved by any nuisance, or by any neglect of scavengers and dustmen, or by any defect of water-supply, forthwith to make complaint at your Office, or to the Inspector of the district, whose name and address might be subjoined; secondly, that a circular letter should be written to all persons in parochial authority, also to other clergy, to heads of visiting societies and the like, begging them to communicate with your officers on every occasion when any local uncleanliness or nuisance may come within their knowledge. * * * * *