That the resolution occupied the meeting but briefly was perhaps regarded as its most satis feature. But, that this attitude was, to say the least, ill-advised, may very easily be shown, and in returning to the subject now we do so under the conviction that the question remains one of vital importance and demande reconsideration.
'We understand that the proposal will not be again brought forward at the forthcoming Ratepayers' Meeting, not officially, at any rate, presumably for the reason that the vote already given against it is deemed to be decisive; but it should not be inferred that the necessity for ® practical beginning in the campaign against the scourge of consumption has ceased to exist.
The need is indeed just as urgent as it was twelve months ago. plies with as much force as ever. The class chiefly affected is without influence and without means, and unless something is done for them by more fortunately situated members of the community, the disease must come peril to all.
This is merely plain statement of a fact which easily escapes every-day observation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.