(6.) As architect for the construction of lunatic asylums, municipal offices, hospitals, abattoirs, mortuaries, baths and wash-houses, cemetery chapels, stables, police stations, and other similar works. (7.) As landscape gardener for the laying out of public recreation grounds, parks, and cemeteries. (8.) As quantity surveyor to make estimates of all works, and often (very improperly) to furnish bills of quantities to intending contractors. (9.) As surveyor and valuer to advise his employers on the values, &c., of corporate or other property. (10.) As land surveyor to make surveys of any size that may be required. (11.) As accountant to examine and rectify the workmen’s wages sheets, and all tradesmen’s accounts for work performed or goods supplied. The foregoing list is no exaggeration of the onerous duties of the town surveyor, and it seems to be a grievous mistake that this officer, whose importance in all practical sanitary work cannot be over-stated (as without him no useful municipal work could go on) has been left unprotected by the Public Health Act of 1875. In that Act both the medical officer of health and the inspector of nuisances have received Government protection, whereas the surveyor, the very officer of all others who necessarily is more likely to come into collision and to be unpopular with his employers in the faithful discharge of his duties, has been afforded no protection whatever, but has been left to the tender mercies of an annually changing body of municipal governors, “to be removable at their pleasure” (38 & 39 Vic., c. 55, s. 189). On this highly important point I cannot do better than quote several passages from Mr. Lewis Angell’s interesting address to the Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors on the occasion of their inauguration in the year 1873:[2] “The ‘town surveyor,’ according to his opportunities, has done the country good service, but, surrounded as we have been with obstructions and difficulties, cramped and restricted by popular prejudices and private interest, subject to clamour and attack, without protection and without appeal, it is indeed surprising that we have accomplished so much. Had such officers been from the first judiciously selected, adequately remunerated, properly supported, and duly protected, our influence upon sanitary progress would have been more conspicuous and our office better appreciated.