THE SANITARY STATE OF THE TOWN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 677, 9 April 1875, Page 3

THE SANITARY STATE OF THE TOWN.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUKSTAX TIMES.) Sir.—Tn the last issue of your journal, an article under the heading of the " Sanitary State of the Town of Clyde," found insertion in your columns, and feeling .ind thinking that it was nothing more nor less than a gross libel upon the community atlarge, I venture to indite these lines in the hope that the same indulgence will Sir by you be extended to me, as was accorded to the distinguished but unknown "Contributor." It is unnecessary to review the action of the local Board of Health, as they not only conceived what their duty was, but actually performed it, and in a manner that not only redounded to their credit but secured the hearty co-operation of the citizens. It is just possible that their nonuse of Rimmell's best perfumery, &c, have caused them to pass over those " piggeries with their foul abominations," and it is equally "probable that the dandy element was not so visible as the wellknown Contributor indulges in. The allusion to Cromwell was unnecessary and uncalled for, and indicates that the writer had but little to do when he unfeelingly attempted to draw a picture and a contrast upon a district that had suffered from a visitation of Pnnidenc?. The relatives of those who have been committed to their mother earth still live—still breathe—still exist—and to seek to harrow and stir up thoße mournful recollections—those sad associations, is but contemptible, and an insult to our common manhood. The sketch drawn of Clydo with its " manure heaps, offal, skins, and non-odoriferous exhalations " exist only in the mind of the writer who, to gratify a revengeful spirit forhaving been thwarted

has, under the protection of the Editorial prvilego, sought to gain ’that advantage that in ordinary ways he would never dare attempt. To your credit Sir, and to the credit of your widely circulated paper, I am bound to admit that it was recognized as a “ contributed ” article. I don’t profess to know much about papers, but I think you would have noticed this alleged grievance if it in reality existed, without the literary aid of your cheap contributor. Drs. Murray, Lcthorbridge, Taylor, Macadam and others have told ns that horse and cow manure are disinfectants, but your Contributor, whose brain may have been affected by the Indian summer disputes their reliability—truly, “ Wise judges are wo of each other. I am, &0., Veritas. Clyde, April 5, 1875.

The winter has been so severe in the Bersusc Jura that the inhabitants of the village of Mantavon have been compelled to place poisoned meat outside their houses to destroy tho wolves driven down from the mountains.