DRAINAGE AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 155, 28 February 1874, Page 3

DRAINAGE AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

TO THE EIHTOK.

*.3 Not wUhßfca " dl «g your many excellent aitioiee recommending a system of drainage for thejreserTat.on of the health of the town, the ‘t V *t . h,^ eH ? tßkea no ac«on in the • ' ' VVbat this inaction may mean is rather incomprehensible, but I must say that it looks as it they would rather spend the money on the Devonport Road or the Cameron Road than upon any scheme which would conserve the lives of Many plans hare been (L* 6 . ’ , Ut u l" n,on i® that the construction « itl * U and d, ‘ ma g° Of the town could, with «Vnrt! J a « ge ’ b ° ? rp “ ?d on For instance, suppose a roadway, with proper water tables, Jra'd, Paßt ii h l Spring Well brewery the best gradient would thereby bo found, the water would fi_ ta w P Kn ut ' lta flourcoand conveyed direct to the sea, while, by any other plan, it would bo allowed to saturate the sod until it reached the drain proposed by the Board. So that the work proposed by the Board can only be efficacious until ie town extends ao far, in which case it will bo absolutely necessary hereafter to make a second of greater magnitude, while one now, properly made, would probably save the expense of at least one mam drain.—X am, &0., Ratbpavbs.