In spite, however, of this snd story of deterioration, your committee, as T mentioned in my opening remark have accomplished much in the suppression of abuses and even more In the prevention of nuisances in the shape of offensive factories and occorations. Constant observation and Immediate action are necessary obtain results and it is in the obto Worse Rather more than a your ago, 8 small" committee was. formed which Subsequently called" meeting of Hon-voting ratepayers. Some attend ity a permanent commit ice was Slocted and it is to hear the result St hele hist year's work that you
Committee's report. and. state~ ihered here th afer ave been circulated {o'ati members and it will not ther fore be necessary for me to read {0'you now.
'A. previous report. dealing with some of the work done by your com-Inileg was cireiated to members on ugh 1988 and from that report well ay from the present one, you wil" have seen thatthe Assosalfon has been' sueeeasful"in good. nun: Ber of instances. in obtaining the hot "be enumerated in detail.
On the whole, however, 1 regret that" it must be! acknowledged that the general conditions in the Western outside roads urans have steadily tone from bad to worse. Whereas yenr or two ago the district was Perhaps the most desirable one Shanghai for foreign and Chinese residences, of the better class, and the few Chinese villages between the Council roads were comparatively. well-ordered and respectable, the whole area Is now given over to almost every form of nuisance and disorder, The roads. ate crowded with heavy trafic which they were not built to carry and they are con Sequently in a deplorable condition, 'The pavements, where these exist, are largely used as work places oF 'oF overflows for the activities of' small. tradesmen and the occupants of the shacks which have been run up in hundreds all over the area,
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