The second class of reformatory measures required for the object in view must devolve on the legislature, and on authorities constituted by it, as all experience shows they cannot be entrusted to the voluntary efforts of individuals, or to those of municipal, or other local self-acting bodies. The enlarged and disinterested consideration of men having authority, independent of the conflicting interests, and removed from the prejudiced opinions, affecting particular places, who look to the welfare of the whole, must do the work, if it be ever done effectually. Enlightened and benevolent men in parliament and out of it have not been scared from the undertaking by the obstacles real and fictitious in the way. Let them however, especially those in parliament persevere, leading others to join them as they assuredly will, disregarding the selfish and ignorant objections raised against their truly patriotic efforts, and they cannot fail of their reward. The measures especially required comprise the form and situation of houses, width of streets, complete underground drainage, and the instant removal or destruction of refuse organic substances from and on the surface, by strict enactments, rigidly enforced. This like the former, is a hacknied theme, but it not the less important on that account, and its interest can never be exhausted till the objects which it embraces are accomplished. If it were objected that such interference by the state in the ordinary affairs of life would trench injuriously on the liberty of the subject, it should be answered that the functions of government are not merely repressive of public outrage, and punitive of offences against the person, that improvements of the people’s condition at large ought to be its great aim, and that it can no more be justified in permitting the lieges, by omission of what is right or commission of what is wrong, to poison themselves on a great scale, than it would be in looking complacently on at the suicide of individuals.