THE 01 D MEN’S HOME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1434, 17 December 1886, Page 2

THE 01 D MEN’S HOME.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Peing well aware that the Press is cipa'ile of doing more execution than the cannon. I «sk your permission to publish the following: lines, viz. :—I had oceasi >n to pass the Old Men’s Pome at 2 am. and was much gr'eved at meeti >g with some of the aged inmates toddling about iu a melancholy st te 1 was informed by them that they had been driven from their beds by vermin, seating that death would be preferable to the manner they were tormented night after night. Is is not a pity that bo good and well meant an institution as the Home should be in such a deplorable state. Even if the pests cannot be altogether extermina'ed, 1 am well aware thkt by a little trouble, and at a very trifling expense, they might be kept under, so as to allow the inmates to ebb out the remainder of their few days in a more agreeable manner than they are at present doing.—Yours, &c., S.T. [This letter has been held over for some days, pendm' enquiry which wo have now made, and we regret to find that o t correspondent's statement as to the Home being infested with insects of the same description as overrun d rty lodging houses iu London is not in the least exaggerated This should be eeen to a*, once by the authorities.—Ed ]