NIGHTSOIL REMOVAL.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16853, 5 June 1920, Page 9

NIGHTSOIL REMOVAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." Sir, —The City Council's method ct removing above has been getting from bad to worse during the past two years. The night for Knowles street is Tuesday : but it frequently happens —at least two weeks in every month—that the Council employees "leave it until Wednesday. This -week, Thursday is here and still wo are left with tho work undone. Surely it is timo the Mayor (a medico) and his Council had sufficient decency to move in this most, drastic monace to public health. For years past wo have been promised by "councillors seeking rateoayors' votes that tho menace of nishtsoil would bo removed, ami tho sewer put in, but it goes np in smoke, a-s do hundreds of councillors' promises. Wo nay a special rate for removal of nightsoil. The Council is quick enough t,o demand the fee, but absolutely indifferent as to whether we pet what we pay for. This chastly dirty system of removal of such doath-deaJ--1 ing menace is worse than tho dirtiest I town I havo ever visited, viz.. Port Said. In that placo it is expelled by I sewers. Adjoining my own house thoro is a scarlet fever case! Can ono wonder at scarlet fever or any plague in these circumstances? —Vours, etc., ST. ALBANS "WEST.