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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1084, 24 March 1911, Page 6

Councillor Barber asked the Mayor last evening whether it would not be possiblo to induce the Government to substitute an ornamental i'enco for the galvanised iron fence which is being moved back on tho Molesworth Street (late Charlotto Street) boundary of tho Parliament House grounds. Mr. AVilford replied that tho fence now being erected was purely temporary. He hoped to induce the Government to do away with the fence alto•gcthor at the point named. There was no reason why the green lawn and flower-tads should not come right down to the footpath. The present feneo was merely intended to keep people out while the works incidental to widening the street were in progress. A great sensation has been caused ot Eccles by a remarkable outbreak of enteric fever. It began on November U, and continued until after Christmas. Dr. Hamilton, the medical officer of health, made careful investigations, and traced tho source of the outbreak to the consumption of infected ice cream sold in tho district by nn Italian from Ancoats. It was proved beyond doubt that the ice cream was purchased between October U3 and 30, and the epidemic was at tho height in the middle to the end of November. When the source was traced, Dr. Hamilton took precautions to prevent ice cream vendors, not only from Ancoats, but from every other district, from parading the streets of the borough, and immediately the epidemic began to show signs of diminishing. No fewer than 171 cases of illness, duo to Oi.tincr ire cream, were reported to the medical officer, and tho death roll out of this number was as many as sixteen. At the meeting of the Cily Council last evening, Councillor M'Laron repeated a question, asked at a former meeting, as to the quantity if supplies obtained by the council from abroad, .lUimugh eapablo of manufacture loca'ly. Councillor M'l.aron indicated sluice-va'ves and other water-fittings as being included in supplies of this description. Mr. Morton (city engineer) stated that tenders wcro called for these articles in accord,uieo with the usual practice. Valves were necessarily embodied in tho same cr.ntracis as 'water-pipes. A local firm had sometimes tendered for the supply of pipes and vn.lvos, but its price livl oil all occasions been too high. Tho engineer is to report further to tho council upon the subject.