CITY SANITARY MATTERS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1277, 4 November 1911, Page 13

CITY SANITARY MATTERS.

Sir,—Through the medium of your wide-ly-read journal, may 1 direct attention to a matter affecting the welfare and comfort of the community at large. I refer to (lie disgusting and abominablo practices of sweeping out shops and beating door-mats against tho verandah posts, between tho hours of 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., when the side-walks are crowded with foot traffic. It is in all conscience bad enough to suffer the agonies which prevailing high winds and filthy streets inflict, without the further impositions specified abovo. I presume that there are bylaws relating to these matters, if so, they appear to Iks honoured only in the breach.

In the cities of the old countries (with some minor exceptions) the importance of proper street sanitation is recognised, and the health of the communities studied in that respect. The exact opposite obtains in most of the New Zealand cities, and in this city in particular. Touching the removal of street refuse, the most crude and primitive methods are resorted to. Filthy mud-carts promenade the streets at the busiest hours of the day, and gaily add their quota of unpleasantness to the othor abominations. Now, Mr. Editor, don't you think it would be advisable to direct the attention of the "Old Ladies" who municipally represent us to these matters, and incidentally impress upon them the fact that we are living in the twentieth century, and not tho sixteenth. —I am, etc., DISGUSTED.