The Dunstan Times. CLYDE FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1883

Dunstan Times, Issue 1086, 23 March 1883, Page 2

The Dunstan Times.

CLYDE FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1883

Beneath the rule of men entirely jnsw The pen is mightier that the sword.

According to a proclamation in the Government Gazette of December 22, 1881, page 1668, power is given to Local Boards of Health to make regulations for the “ appointment of Inspectors of milk and daries ; also for the 11 inspection of cattle in daries, and prescribing precautions against the sale of milk where the public health would be likely to be endangered by such sale, and other matters pertaining thereto." Now as it is a generally known that there is no more active an agent than milk in disseminating contagious diseases, and we being perfectly alive to the fact that in this and a neighbouring town there are several existing cases of scarlatina and typhoid (both though fortunately of a mild character), and, moreover, the question not being yet answered as from whai source either disease sprang, and there being no outward sign to which they can be traced, we think that every effort should be made to trace, it possible, the source. The proclamation coming under our notice w© draw attention to it in the Lope that the Local Boards of Health may take action and appoint Ii - spectors so that if thesouiceof trouble lie in that direction they may be the better able to crush it out. In our reference .to the existence of disease in our midst in last week’s issue, we said it was not of such an extent as to create undue alarm, to that wo still adhere, and in advising that precautionary measures be taken we do not neces* sarily cry wolf. Prevention is better than cure, and wo strongly advise that every thing possible should be done to scotch the insidious disease if it cannot be killed.