CLEANSING AUCKLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1911, Page 9

CLEANSING AUCKLAND.

CONTINUOUS CRUSADE ADVOCATED. [3Y XELJSGSAPH— SPECIAL TO TEE SOST.] AUCKLAND, This Day. In addressing the City Council on* the question of sanitaiy inspection in connection with the cases of plague the district Health Officer (Dr. Makgill) said that it would be a mistake to appoint a large staff of inspectors, and it would be a panic action to employ 100 men for six months when 6ix men working 100 months could do much more valuable work. "You have an uphill fight before you," he continued, "just a 6 Sydney had and nothing but a solid stair, working year in and year out will do any good." Dr. Makgill said that more important than the destruction of rate and the i§tuoval of refuse was the destruction of 1 many ancient houses in the city, which should be pulled down. There were places in Lower Queen-street, he said, which were unspeakably bad — dark, miserable, and verminous cellars which should be cleared out if the city was to be freed from plague. Both papeTS are strongly insisting on, the need for a thorough cleaning up of the city. The Herald says : "Both 'bubonic* plague and the more deadly pneumonic form of the disease have been officially recorded, and the authorities will have to strain their energies to stamp out infection and to remove the existing danger of a most disastrous oatbreak. Only a* sound and irresistible j public opinion can compel the authorities to do their duty to clean up the city and to keep it cleaned up after the immediate peril is over. The Star expresses the opinion that wnat is wanted is not a.v_; spasmodic or .hysterical attempt at cleaning up the j city but a steady systematic crusade ! against rats and filth, continued from one year to another. As to the rats the case against these pestilential vermin, is proved - up to the hilt, and we have no excuse either for harbouring them or for refraining from taking steps to ensure their extermination. It may be necessary for the public health authorities and the City Council to take very vigorous measures to compel people in general to pay attention to their instructions.